they are called polyps.
Corals are made up of tiny animals called polyps.
A Coral is made from plants
Contrary to popular beleif, corals are animals. What you classically think of as corals are colonies of tiny organisms. These make up a coral. Many, many corals plus fish, crustaceans, echidnoderms and algae, make up a coral reef.
unlike plants,corrals do not make their own food. Corals are in fact animals . The branch or mound that we often call "a coral " is actually made up of thousands of tiny animals called polyps. A coral polyp is an invertebrate that can be no bigger than a pinhead to up to a foot in diameter.
What is an ocean ridge made up of skeletal remains of tiny sea animals
Coral Islands ^____^
Coral is the animal, coral is a living creature. Certain corals are made up of colonies of corals. For example, a plating coral (Montipora Cap.) can have hundreds or thousand of small animals living in one piece of coral.
Coral islands.
Corals (mostly plural) are animals. But very, very tiny small animals, which build out of limestone the structures, we know as a 'coral'. In deed, this sturctures are the house of thousand of these small animals, which live in this house and building it up together.
invertebrates are animals which do not have a skeleton made up of bones . Some examples of invertebrates are - Jellyfish , Corals , Starfish , Sponges , Crabs and Shrimps
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