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What type of landform are Florida keys?

In the geographical sense, a key is an archipellago, which is to say, a chain of islands.


Coral reef food web?

The food chain of a coral reef is best expressed through a diagram:The related link below has a good one that is not too hard to understand.--shark--moray--barracuda--pufferfish--damsel--fish--coral--squid--butterfly--fish--sponge--zooplankton--plankton--phitoplanktonNote: There are comments associated with this question. See the Discuss:What_is_the_food_chain_of_the_coral_reefto add to the conversation.


What is the name of the long chain of coral reefs and where is in Australia?

The Great Barrier Reef stretches from Rockhampton northwards along the east coast Queensland and a little beyond.


What 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.


Is coral symmetrical?

Coral can exhibit different forms of symmetry depending on the type. Many corals, like stony corals, display radial symmetry, where their body parts are arranged around a central axis, while others may show more irregular growth patterns. However, overall, coral structures often have a symmetrical appearance when viewed from above. Individual coral polyps, which are the building blocks of coral reefs, typically exhibit a cylindrical shape with tentacles arranged symmetrically around their mouth.