To survive, coral reefs need algae, sunlight, clear clean water, warm temperatures, and saltwater. The sunlight helps the algae grow. Coral is sensitive to dirty, cold, and polluted waters and function best when the water is clean and warm.
yes, coral reefs do grow well in high levels of oxygen.
Coral reefs are a diverse habitat for marine life.
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fringing reefs
Correct, they need the warm waters of the tropics to grow successfully.
no they dont
The coral reefs are mostly able to grow in clay like material that keeps the coral stable. They just need sand for certain corals and other grow on solid rock surfaces. It just depends if the coral is a Small polyp stoney corals or a large polyp stony or some other kind of soft coral.
you need to care for coral reefs because all kinds of animals live in the reefs and if the touch them you will get shocked. It takes along time to grow them back. If you go and see the coral reef it is so color full, green, red, blue, yellow. there apart of our wild life in the water.
Most of the reef building corals and animals on a reef are dependant on high amounts of sunlight; thus coral reefs are restricted to the tropics where sunlight is abundant. There are deep water sponge reefs in temperate and artic regions, but they are much different from coral reefs.
Coral Reefs
The Arctic Ocean is too cold for coral reefs.The coral reefs cannot grow under cold conditions. They can only grow in waters between the arctic circle and the equator. They must grow under neutral tepurature water. Even if they are too hot they can't grow.
no dolphins are not in coral reefs.