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Coral Reefs Chapter 4 Section 3

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from space the East Coast of Australia appears to be in the Embrace of giant opal the largest living structure on Earth the Great Barrier Reef is a lacy living wall spanning more than 1000 km of islands and submerged reefs between the Queensland coast and the western edge of the Pacific Ocean opal seems to Splinter into millions of pieces small metallic blue fish Barracuda gliding silver submarines cage Malone predatory shark the Great Barrier Reef is like underwater city buildings are alive with millions of small creatures whose lives are intimately intricately connected  it is as diverse as a rainforest Uncle Mosaic of more than 70 types of who sings of species of marine life  as many as 100 different kinds of Karl May occupy a single acre of molecule by molecule Carl animals gradually extract calcium carbonate turn the surrounding water to form minut Stony cups around each animal soft crown of tentacles some girls live in solitary splendor but most are built with hundreds sometimes thousands of individual animals linked together to form a single Carl mount cluster branches  summer like little trees and shrubs they provide food and shelter for thousands of other forms life  curls get the credit for most of the reef structure much of the construction is done by fast-growing encrusting Reynolds blue submitting fragments of shell sand and Carl with sheets of calcium carbonate the reef is home to more than 4,000 kinds of mollusks from tiny sea slugs new d'bronx to Giant clams green sea turtles travel thousands of miles in the open sea to reach the sea pictures of some of the various islands and their to lay their eggs  kitchens hit straight for the sea we will travel thousands of miles over the years and eventually return to later own eggs established as a national park in 1975 Great Barrier Reef was designated the world heritage sites six years later today about 33% of it is fully protected from fishing and other extractive activities and efforts are underway deal with pollution overfishing the consequences of climate change the Great Barrier Reef appears to be about 20,000 years geologist using deep coring techniques and found evidence of ancient Carl's there are half a million years old  scare future of Australia's living treasure the Great Barrier Reef will be at least as enduring as its magnificent past

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