CORALS

Where is the largest coral reef in the world?

• AMERICA

• AUSTRALIA

• UNITED KINGDOM

• BAHAMAS

What exactly are corals?

• animals

• vegetables

• minerals

• all three above

What do corals use energy of the sun for?

• to get warmer

• to move

• to grow

• to make sugars

What do corals do during the other twelve hours of the day when its dark?

• they change their color

• they multiply their selves

• they extend their tentacles

• they sleep

where do they use all that food energy?

• to grow faster

• to gain weight

• to cunstract skeletons

• to get stronger

how do they use the fossilized coral skeletons in south florida?

• as a building material

• as a food

• as a plant

• as an animal

How do corals grow?

• slowly

• mediun

• very slow

• massive

How do corals feed?

• with their mouth

• with their hands

• they get food from endosymbiotic microalgae (autotrophy)

• They launch their tentacles and grab their food

  (heterotrophy)

What do they eat ?

• they eat small plaktonic organisms

• they eat fishes

• they eat theirselves

• they eat people

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is mixotrophy?

• when they mix their food before eating

• when they eat different kinds of food

• autotrophy

  • +

  • heterotrophy

• when the corals have a lot of different colors