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What is the largest coral atoll in the world?
The largest coral atoll in the world is the Kwajalein Atoll.The largest atoll in land area is Christmas Island.
What is at the center of an atoll?
At the center of an atoll is usually a lagoon, which is a body of water surrounded by a ring of coral reef. The lagoon can vary in size and depth depending on the specific atoll.
What is a grouping of coral islands called?
A grouping of coral islands is called an atoll. Atolls are formed from coral reefs that have grown on the remnants of volcanic islands that have sunk in the ocean. They usually form a ring shape with a lagoon in the center.
What do you call a group of islands?
An Atoll is the name used to refer to a group of related coral islands.
What is is the difference between an island and an atoll?
An atoll is formed from an island, but it isn't entirely an island. It's a coral reef that makes the different. The reef grows in a ring around the island and the island erodes, until little if any of it is above the surface of the water and the coral reef remains. Islands are any small body of land surrounded by water. Islands in the middle of the ocean are usually volcanic and islands in lakes and near continents are usually just areas of the continental shelf surrounding the continent with a higher elevation. To actually answer your question, the KEY difference is the reef.
What is a ring shape coral islands surrounding a lagoon?
A coral atoll.
What is a ring of coral islands called?
An Atoll is the name used to refer to a group of related coral islands.
Is vanuatu a atoll?
Mainly volcanic or uplifted coral massifs- not coral atoll in the usual sense
What is a ring of coral that encloses a pool of seawater?
A atoll
What do you call a ring or a partial ring of coral that forms an island?
This is called a coral atoll.
What do you call a coral isle?
Atoll
What is the term for a circular coral reef?
A coral atoll.
Where would a atoll be located?
An atoll is an island of coral that partially or completely surrounds a lagoon.
What is the largest coral atoll in the world?
The largest coral atoll in the world is the Kwajalein Atoll.The largest atoll in land area is Christmas Island.
Where are atoll reefs found?
they are islands of coral
What is a circular coral reed called?
Atoll
Can you give a sentence using the word atoll?
An atoll is an island (or islands) of coral that encircles a lagoon partially or completely.
