Yes as most plants do.
The coral is gray and is easy to break
for a little while. But coral is thousands of tiny living organisms all stuck together, so they won't all die at once. One dead organism won't make the whole coral structure die, so there will still be color in the rest.
Coral Buttsworth died in 1985.
Coral Lansbury died in 1991.
an animal that needs coral :^)
Technically touching corals once in a while doesn't make them die; they are delicate, and it damages them, but they can usually recover. The reason why you are asked not to touch them on the coral reef is that if everyone touched them then the small bit of damage done by each touch would add up, causing the coral to eventually die. One touch or two is relatively harmless, but many touches is deadly.
Some diseases carried by humans can infect coral reefs and scientists have just recently discovered that a form of the herpes virus is killing coral reefs.
Yes. All living things die.
A coral polyp is an individual coral cell, and when polyps stick together, they form coral a.k.a. Coral Polyp Colonies. Later, when the polyps die, their skeleton (which is like a hard shell) Strengthens the coral formation.
Coral reef are too shallow for sharks to be in, the diving continues to break bits and peices of the coral reefs. If the diving continues the tiny fish are exposed to sharks eventually leading to the gradual overpopulaion of sharks and with no fish left to eat in the ocean that sharks die off. so stop diving today :)
Yes. Organisms die and their skeletons collect to make coral.
No. but you could be injured