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A Coral Reef is MADE by small animals the look like flowers.
These animals make tubes and shells to live in. The secrete a very hard material almost like concrete. This part of the animal is completely and totally dead. The rest of the animal, the fleshy part, is completely living.
When the animal dies, the hard part is left, and THAT is what we call "coral". Baby animals will attach to this dead part, and as they build shells the coral reef grows bigger.
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∙ 9y agoA coral reef is both living and dead because the reef is made from broken up organisms and shells. However the organisms living within the reef are alive.
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What is living non living and dead?
Coral reef and trees
What is the body covering of blue coral?
The body covering of the blue coral are the a layer of tissue covering the skeleton and connecting the living polyps. The Living coral grow on the skeletons of the dead ancestors. This is how the reef grows.
What is living coral?
Coral that is living.
Is a coral reef part of a water habitat or is a water habitat?
A coral reef a water habitat, although the coral reef is alive it is only the very outside layer of coral that is living as all the under layers are dead coral.
What is fossilized coral made of?
Dead organisms that were living million / billion/S of years ago.
Non living and living factors are?
Non-living means "never was and never will be alive" living means "alive" rocks are nonliving sand is dead (dead means once alive but not anymore) because some of it used to be coral lizards and wildlife are living.
What is a coral reef made of?
Coral is the skeletal bone of the living organism, it is made of limestone. So really, it is both bone and stone! Lime-stone : sedimentary rock which contains mainly calcium carbonate coral : hard colored skeleton secreted by certain marine polyps
Is coral still colorful when it is dead?
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.
Is coral Dead?
no
Does a coral have a head?
No because coral is not a living thing it is the tiny organisms living in side of it that make it living. these organisms are the reason coral grows as they build it around them.
What are the nonliving things in the ocean?
There is no such thing as a non-living organism.
Is coral a living thing?
Coral reefs have a non-living component, in the form of a calcium carbonate skeleton, and a living component in the form of small animals called polyps, who secreted the skeleton. However, if the polyps die, you still have coral left over, so coral can be either living or dead.
