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The Coral Reefs of Palau: Nature’s Amazing

Underwater Cities
What is coral? Corals are animals. They are alive.
Corals are made up of tiny animals called polyps.
Hundreds, even thousands, of polyps can make up a
coral. Over time, each polyp not only builds its own
skeleton, but adds to the structure to the reef. What
gives corals the energy for all this building? A
partnership with symbiotic algae called zooxanthellae.
They use energy from the sun to photosynthesize,
providing up to 95% of the food the corals need. In turn,
the corals release nutrients valuable to the algae give
them a safe place to live.

1. Where can you find coral reefs around the world?


You actually can find them all over the world but, they are
mostly near the coast line because they use the warm
water to survived.

2. Describe how coral reefs are like big cities?


These coral reef are like a great number of buildings, and
there are actually ‘people living in there which is the fish ,
sea hourse and other sea creatures.

3. What is coral?
Corals is animals made up of many soft polyps and hard
limestones skeletones that are attached to the ocean floor.They
are form by the polypmwhich means the soft part of a coral that is like a
miniature anemone

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4.Describe the parts of a coral reef food web.
The are very similar to the food wab on land and it starts on
plants too and these plants get the food from the sun.

5. What does symbiosis mean?


It means that the relationship between two different species of
organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefit from the
other.

6. Define mutualism and parasitism.

Mutualism is a symbiotic relationship where both organisms


benefit .

7. EXTENSION QUESTION (OPTIONAL) Give an example of


mutualism and explain how the symbiotic relationship
works?
Like the crocodile nd the birds: the birds will fly into the
crocodiles’ mouth and clean his teeth with its beak, the
crocodiles will not eat it, because it can help it teeth and the
birds can eat the meat that is stuch between the teeth. ( I think
that is disgusting).

8.List and describe some of the things that coral reefs do for
people.
We made some Jewlery with these coral reefs ,and the most
important things is it made food for some many people
around the world( that lives near the tropic).
And also, we use the chemistry that made from this
creatures to make the important medicine for poeple and
that was also fasinating.
From the point of the nature disease , it prevent the
tusnami or other wave that cna made a series damage.

9. In what ways are coral reefs sensitive?

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It use the chemistry to communicate and it are pretty
sensitive.they use these special chemical to sense the next
meal, its mate and every other things, it needs to survived
or for the future generations.

10. Whatare some ways that the people of Palau have


worked to save their reefs and protect their ocean
habitats?
No matter where you live, the waste water is going to end
up im the oceans.Iti s really important to notice what
goes down your drains. So the point is what you do on
land is really important to the sea and the coral reef.

11.Describe some ways that people are working to protect reefs


worldwide.
Poeple can use a website and know what you can do to
protect the coral reefs and it was been used by millions of
person now.

12.What are some things that you can do to help coral reefs
stay healthy and strong?

I think that you can stop the pollution as much as you can,( no
one expected you to stop polluting at all) and you can get rid of
some sea weed because int some place ti ios growing on the
place of the coral reefs

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Related Resources: The following lesson plans and videos
can be used to supplement the virtual field trip.

The Need is Mutual: The


Importance of Biological
Interactions
Grade Levels: 6-8

Organisms have a variety of


relationships. In this lesson,
© Ian Shive The Nature students learn to categorize
relationships, like symbiosis,
between organisms. To reinforce
the lesson, examples from coral
reefs are presented.
There are several extensions for
this lesson plan.

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Other Related Resources

Ocean Acidification Activities and Experiments


Below is a summary of a few demonstrations or simple
experiments you can do with students. The URLs provided
come from lesson plans with more detailed information.
 Use beakers with differing concentrations of acid (in this

case – vinegar). Put calcium tablets, old-style chalk, egg


shells, etc. in the beakers and watch the change over
time. The pH of the solution can be measured and the
items can be weighed as time passes. This demonstrates
how organisms with calcium carbonate shells can
dissolve in the presence of increased acidity.
o http://www.cisanctuary.org/ocean-acidification/PDFs-
WorkshopPage/Hands_on_acivities/
Marine_Osteoporosis/marineos.pdf
o http://www.cisanctuary.org/ocean-acidification/PDFs-
WorkshopPage/Hands_on_acivities/OA_Shells.pdf

 Put red cabbage juice or bromothymol blue indicators in


a beaker and blow into them with straw (adding CO2).
The indicator will change color as CO2 increases. This
demonstrates how the ocean takes up carbon dioxide.
o http://monitor.noaa.gov/education/pdfs/
rov_ocean_acidification.pdf

 Put dry ice in a beaker with bromothymol blue. As the dry


ice sublimates, the carbon dioxide gas will change the
color of the indicator from blue to green to yellow. This
illustrates how carbon dioxide can be taken up by
seawater.
o http://www.cisanctuary.org/
ocean-acidification/PDFs-
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WorkshopPage/Hands_on_aci
vities/OA_dry_ice_demo.pdf

Classroom Resources (All Grades)


 NOVA Next: Palau’s Improbably

Healthy Coral Reefs, by Joshua


Sokol
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nex
t/nature/acidic-coral-refugia/
 NOAA Education Coral Ecosystems Collection –

background information, lessons and activities,


multimedia
http://www.education.noaa.gov/Marine_Life/Coral_Ec
osystems.html
 NOAA Education Ocean Acidification Collection –

background information, lessons and activities,


multimedia
http://www.education.noaa.gov/Ocean_and_Coasts/Oc
ean_Acidification.html
 Google Earth Oceans Street View

– Explore coral reefs using Google


https://www.google.com/maps/vie
ws/streetview/oceans?gl=us
 Google Earth Underwater Streetview for World Oceans Day
2015
 http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2015/06/explore-life-
beneath-waves-in-honor-of.html
 NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem

Poster – download a PDF of a


poster
http://coralreef.noaa.gov/educatio
n/educators/resourcecd/posters/

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Real-time Data (Middle School to High School Level)
 Data in the Classroom – Ocean

Acidification and Coral Bleaching


Modules
http://dataintheclassroom.noaa.gov/
 NOAA View

Coral Bleaching
-http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/vie
w/#CDHW Ocean Acidification
-
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/view
/#ACID

Visualizations and Imagery (Middle School to High


School Level)
 Ocean Acidification Animation
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail.php?
MediaID=165&MediaTypeID=2
 Bleaching Stress Visualization for Indo-

Pacific Corals
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail.
php?MediaID=490&MediaTypeID=1
 Bleaching Conditions 2014

http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail2.
php?MediaID=1648&MediaTypeID=1
 Science Bulletins – Coral Reefs in Hot Water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=RTcBFME4_bU&list=PL03468DEB0456E448
&index=21

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The Coral Reefs of Palau Virtual Field
Trip BEFORE
Log AFTER

I know that…the coral reefs have a I want to know more about…the


lot of use for example making accurate ways to stop the
the medicine ot provide food to pollutions and save the coral reefs
people all around the world. _

I wonder if… will there be one days My favorite part was …the animals
that the coral reefs have die out? living near the near the coral reefs.

I hope that we can find more use of I learned that the coral reefs is very
saving the coral reefs. important to human beings.

Imagine you are in Palau – what would


you

be doing?On the left, draw a

“selfie” of yourself on your trip.


Rate this virtual field
trip:

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