No, starfish can move. Coral cannot move. Starfish have a mouth with which to eat. Coral bring in nutrients through tendrils.
Coral grows in salt water. The freshwater coming out of the river would kill it.
because it is an U shaped island with coral reefs surrounding it
Yes you can because the water becomes slow moving and the particles can settle and start the process of building a coral reef
The devil's mouth is island located off the coast of Aruba, they are called that because many sharp coral surrounds these islands and makes navigated extremely dangerous.
The devil's mouth is island located off the coast of Aruba, they are called that because many sharp coral surrounds these islands and makes navigated extremely dangerous.
The Devil's Mouth is a key place in the book "The Cay". Devil's mouth is a large section of coral reef that grows cuts off several small islands from explorers.
No, the Amazon River expells 4.2 million cubic feet of water per second. This is too great for fragile coral to ever form, even disregarding all the other reasons why you would not find coral reefs near the mouth of the Amazon.
The answer is yes. Coral snakes do actually have fangs.
One animal that eats coral is the parrotfish. It has a very hard beak-like mouth and bites off bits of coral, eating the live coral animals and eventually excreting the hard parts as sand. Another is the Crown of Thorns Sea Star, which extrudes it's stomach over the coral to digest it. In groups they can decimate an outcrop of coral. The Crown of Thorns is covered with venomous spines which exude a neurotoxin.
A coral polyp is a tubular sack-like animal with a central mouth surrounded by a ring of tentacles. The end opposite the tentacles, called the base, is attached to the substrate.
Nutritive polyp, any one of the zooids of a compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and digestive cavity.