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Does corals eat zooxanthellae?
No corals doesn't eat zooxanthellae they only eat zooplankton. Zooxanthallae helps corals to live and keeps corals colourful.They live on the coral polyps.
What are the organisms that live in colonies of polyps and secrete an exoskeleton of calcium carbonate?
corals
What are the characteristics of a coral reef?
A coral reef comprises of a community of fish, plants and other organisms. Many polyps make up the coral reefs. Tentacles originating from the center of each polyp form a cup-shaped ring. The polyps also have calcium-filled outer skeletons.
What is a coral polyps habitat?
Where do polyps live
When the temperature of the ocean water rises it puts stress on coral in response to the stress corals expel the algae that live inside the coral polyps what is this process called and why is it da?
This process is called bleaching, as it turns the corals white. I dont know why it is da, as I dont know what da means.
Why soft corals live in deeper water than hard corals?
soft corals live deeper water than hard corals because soft corals do not create a hard outer skeleton as the hard corals do.
True or False Zooxanthallae live in the tissues of corals?
True. Zooxanthellae are a type of dinoflagellate that often live symbiotically in corals. Zooxanthellae are photosynthetic and provide the corals they live in with energy.
The Respiration of a hydrozoa is?
The hydrozoa refers to the taxonomic class of predatory animals and colonial animals that live in salt water. The members of hydozoa are related to corals and jellyfish.
Does eastern diamondback live in solitary or in group?
rattlesnakes live solitary
Are corals flowering marine plants?
Coral are marine animals that typically fall in the Anthozoa class. All corals have tubular bodies called polyps with a ring of stinging tentacles around the mouth. When the animal dies, the polyps harden and may become part of a coral reef.
What are corals?
Corals is the common name for Anthozoa.---- Corals are skeletal remains of marine organisms from the class Anthozoa and exist as small sea anemone-like polyps, typically in colonies of many identical individuals. The group includes the important reef builders that are found in tropical oceans, which secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton. A coral "head", commonly perceived to be a single organism, is actually formed of thousands of individual but genetically identical polyps, each polyp only a few millimeters in diameter. Over thousands of generations, the polyps lay down a skeleton that is characteristic of their species. A head of coral grows by asexual reproduction of the individual polyps. Corals also breed sexually by spawning, with corals of the same species releasing gametes simultaneously over a period of one to several nights around a full moon. Although corals can catch plankton using stinging cells on their tentacles, these animals obtain most of their nutrients from symbiotic unicellular algae called zooxanthellae. Consequently, most corals depend on sunlight and grow in clear and shallow water, typically at depths shallower than 60 m (200 ft). These corals can be major contributors to the physical structure of the coral reefs that develop in tropical and subtropical waters, such as the enormous Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland, Australia. Other corals do not have associated algae and can live in much deeper water, such as in the Atlantic, with the cold-water genus Lophelia surviving as deep as 3000 m.
Corals are animals that live?
they are an animal and they do live on the seas
