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What is a coral atoll?
A coral atoll is a large ring of coral that extends up to the ocean's surface and higher.
What do you call a group of islands?
An Atoll is the name used to refer to a group of related coral islands.
Where can you find an atoll?
In the island of Bora Bora.
What is is the difference between an island and an atoll?
An atoll is formed from an island, but it isn't entirely an island. It's a coral reef that makes the different. The reef grows in a ring around the island and the island erodes, until little if any of it is above the surface of the water and the coral reef remains. Islands are any small body of land surrounded by water. Islands in the middle of the ocean are usually volcanic and islands in lakes and near continents are usually just areas of the continental shelf surrounding the continent with a higher elevation. To actually answer your question, the KEY difference is the reef.
What is at the center of an atoll?
a toco
What is a ring shape coral islands surrounding a lagoon?
A coral atoll.
What is a coral atoll?
A coral atoll is a large ring of coral that extends up to the ocean's surface and higher.
What is a ring of coral islands called?
An Atoll is the name used to refer to a group of related coral islands.
Is vanuatu a atoll?
Mainly volcanic or uplifted coral massifs- not coral atoll in the usual sense
What is a ring of coral that encloses a pool of seawater?
A atoll
What do you call a ring or a partial ring of coral that forms an island?
This is called a coral atoll.
What do you call a coral isle?
Atoll
What is the largest coral reef is the world?
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef.
What is the term for a circular coral reef?
A coral atoll.
What Republic does Kiritimati belong to?
Kirimati belongs to the Republic of Kiribati. It is also known as Christmas Island and it contains 48% of Kiribati's land area. It is also the world's largest coral atoll.
Where would a atoll be located?
An atoll is an island of coral that partially or completely surrounds a lagoon.
Where are atoll reefs found?
they are islands of coral
