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helping the roofs fly from Miami beach florida.
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What are they? My name is Kennedy roberts.
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I've went on a scuba investigation to figure out
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what a coral reef is so far my investigation,
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I've figured out not all corals come into reefs.
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The reason for this is because the corals that
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do form is because individual polyps attached to rocks.
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The next step to my investigation was to figure out how they attached to rocks
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from lots of time under the water.
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My thoughts finally all came and I figured out that they attach to
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rocks by secreting a calcium carbonate exoskeleton
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that submits the polyps in place.
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I came to the conclusion that the corals have great
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relationships with the algae known as zoo annex ella.
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The Algae gives the coral nutrition from photosynthesis and is
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used as carbon dioxide produced from the coral reefs.
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This was the end of my investigation for part one.
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Why are they important? Hey, it's me. Again, I'm halfway done on my investigation.
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I found the reasons as to why they're so important.
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The coral reef came from the most diverse ecosystem in the world.
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While I was under the water,
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I saw lots of marine life and I wanted to know where they were headed.
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So that's what I did. It lead me to know. 25% of the marine life
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lives in a coral reef.
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I feel as if some unknown species are also living in the coral reef.
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The biodiversity of the coral reef is valuable and irreplaceable.
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I am now in Part three of my coral reef investigation today.
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I will be figuring out what is happening to the reef.
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The reefs are in several
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in severe threats. The extreme weather conditions are going to harm them.
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Fishing is causing death to the coral reef
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when you fish, it's leading the coral reefs to stress out,
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and then that is causing them to kill themselves.
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The dropping ocean temperatures are putting them in tons of danger.
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Be sure to clean up trash before you kill one of these,
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helping the reefs live from Miami beach florida.