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Hawaii has 300,000 acres of coral reefs. Papahānaumokuākea is a protected reef on the northwestern islands. Puako Reef is another one. Hanauma Bay near Koko Head is another one.
https://www.pacificwhale.org/documentSetting/UserFiles/File/coral_reef_guide.pdf
http://www.coris.noaa.gov/activities/habitat_assessment/hawaii.pdf
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Scientific name for coral reef?
Here are some of the names of some types of corals purple squirter, fringing reefs, barrier reefs, atoll reefs. If you like coral reefs, check out our website destructionofcoralreefs.weebly.com What is happening to our corals? Find out!
What is the texture of the ground of coral reefs?
The texture of the ground of coral reefs is very squishy and in some places rocky. In places there are also sharp plants and plants that sting you.
What are some omnivores in coral reefs?
One omnivore in a sea turtle.triggerfish, starfish
Do blowfish hibernate?
no puffer fishes do not migrate. they live in tropical seas in coral reefs
What coral is becoming extinct?
There are many corals threatened with with extinction. Current estimates are that for a variety of reasons, pollution, fishing, disease, warming oceans fully one half of all corals are threated. Some examples are The Great Barrier Reef off Australia; the reefs of Hawaii in Kaneoke Bay and Waikiki Bay; reefs off Guam, the Virgin Islands, Jamaica, and Bermuda; and reefs in the Indian Ocean: all are in various stages of destruction. African states with endangered reefs in the western Indian Ocean include Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Mauritius and the Seychelles. Florida's barrier reef was calculated in 1986 to be dying at the rate of 4% a year. In 1991, parts of the reef were dying at the rate of 10% a year. Reefs consist of many types of coral such as Brain, Staghorn, Pillar, Black, Whip, Fan etc.
What are the names of some coral reefs in Jamaica?
Isabel,Charlotte, and Olivia.
What are some of the names of corals?
Here are some of the names of some types of corals purple squirter, fringing reefs, barrier reefs, atoll reefs. If you like coral reefs, check out our website destructionofcoralreefs.weebly.com What is happening to our corals? Find out!
Scientific name for coral reef?
Here are some of the names of some types of corals purple squirter, fringing reefs, barrier reefs, atoll reefs. If you like coral reefs, check out our website destructionofcoralreefs.weebly.com What is happening to our corals? Find out!
Who is causing the coral reefs to die?
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.
Do coral reefs live alone?
some coral reefs do live alone, but some live in groups called colonies.
Do fish live in coral reefs?
Some fish eat of the coral reefs, but they do not live on or in the coral reefs. But every fish living on or in the coral reef has a job to do that protects it from the intrudors.
Does Indonesia have coral reefs?
Indonesia has some of the most spectacular reefs in the world.
What are the 3 kind of coral reefs?
brain coral and coral branches. some of them are flat too.
What are some physical features in the Bahamas?
coral reefs
What are some interesting facts about the coral reef?
people are killing the coral reefs by pollution.
What are the 3 kinds of reefs?
brain coral and coral branches. some of them are flat too.
What are some similarties between an ecosystem and coral reefs?
A coral reef is an ecosystem, that is the similarity.
