The reefs require adequate amount of sunlight. They grow only in shallow and clean water. A reef can be made of any of the three substances - sand, rock or coral. The temperature that is conducive for the formation of reefs is between 18 degree Celsius and 30 degree Celsius.
The sea animals called polyps form colonies that make the reefs. A coral polyp resembles a sea anemone. This animal has many tentacles around its mouth. Many polyps join together to form a colony. The Barrier Reef is made of many coral reefs. Each coral polyp is associated with an alga. The photosynthesis by an alga helps the polyp to make a coral skeleton. The skeletons are made of aragonite, a form of calcium carbonate. These coral skeletons form quickly and are the foundation on which coral reefs are built. Two coral skeletons are sealed together by calcium carbonate produced by algae. Thus the reefs including the Great Barrier Reef are formed due to the association between a sea animal and a single-celled plant.
because it is the nature of the reef and it important because there are Lot of living thing's in the great barrier reconsider of the land.
yes it is. It was formed by the River Colorado wearing it down. it used to be a great plain. (A flat expanse of land.)
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valleys
landforms are formed by volcanoes?
They were already formed but the were covered with water.
Volcanos CAN form under water. that is how land is formed.
a plateau probably formed when the surrounding land was eroded
levees are formed
Yes, The Great Plains is a landform.
Great Plains.
Mountain because it was formed by convergenting boundaries