Ana O. 8 2010

Coral Reef Adventure

The movie about the Coral Reefs was basically about the Coral Reefs why are they endangered,what are they,and what is causing it to be in danger.Coral Reefs are made from tiny organisms,which they are found in the South Pacific.Even though they look like just plain coral reefs that don't do anything,they are also beneficial or help us with things.They are beneficial because they restore health,provide fish,they have chemical compounds which they are produced for the chronic pain,people rely on food,they give medical cures,and they protect the land from the violent seas.Coral Reefs are endangered and the reasons why they are endangered is because of Ocean Warming and for cutting down forests,but the main cause is for Ocean Warming.The reason why coral reefs are affected because cutting down forests is because,the dirt or the silk from the trees fall off when a forest is cut.There are these kind of trees that prevent from the silk to not move,and these are called mangoes.The Coral Reefs have lived over 60,000,000 years of existence.Coral Reefs are pretty because they sway like flowers,all corals are animals.One of the interesting fact that I think was interesting was that the Great Barrier Reef is one of the largest of them all.The fish also protect the corals from the seaweeds.Corals basically eat algae and it's one of the most important things to the coral.People that go diving underwater also get affected by the bends because when they go deeper in the ocean,there's a short amount of oxygen if you go deeper and darker into it.Corals are also beneficial to animals like for example,the octopus.Since crabs most of the time live on corals,the octopus main source of food is the crab.Without the crab,the octopus will starve to death and have a short amount of energy.Corals are white when they starve for not eating algae for a long period of time.For this not to happen we can also help prevent Coral Reefs from being destroyed by not cutting a great amount of trees because the dirt will fall and then go into the water.Coral Reefs are beneficial to any kind of living thing in the world.