 Coral Reef The Coral Reef Is An Ecosystem. Like A Wetland. Although There Are Many Features On A Coral Reef, I Will Only Name The Major Ones Below.  The First Major Feature On A Coral Reef Is The Fragments/ Or Particles Of Coral Sands And Limestone. A Coral Reef Is Just An Underwater Ridge/ Or Mound Built Up Of These.  The Second Major Feature Of a Coral Reef Is, Coral Reef’s Can Be Big Or Small But The Living Portion Of The Coral Reef Is Always The Polyp. (Pol-Up) Which Forms When, Floating Larvae Settle’s On A Surface And, The Larvae Develops Into Polyp.

 Animals That Live In the Coral Reef  Two Animals That Live In The Coral Reef Are The Marine Turtle And, The Sea Otter. The Sea Otter Is Specially Adapted To The Coral Reef’s Warm Waters. It’s Specially Adapted Because It Has Webbed Paws To Propel It Through Water. The Marine Turtle Lays Its Eggs On The Shore Near The Reef.

Plants That Live In The Coral Reef’s Two Plants That Live In The Coral Reef’s Are Manatee Grass, And Grape Algae. Manatee Grass, And Grape Algae Are Specially Adapted To The Coral Reefs Manatee Grass Is Specially Adapted Because, The Grass Get’s Special Nutrients From The Reef. Because The Reef Gives Off The Nutrients. And Grape Algae Is Specially Adapted To The Reef Because It Feeds Off The Algae That The Reef Produces.

Ponds And Lakes Are One Of The Many, Many Ecosystems Of The World. A Lake Can Range In Size From A Small Lake To A Huge Body Of Water Like One Of The Great Lakes Of The United States. On The Other hand A pond Is Very Shallow Water That Is So Shallow It Can Even Support Rooted Plants. They’re Both Still Bodies Of water That Is Freshwater.

Two Animals That Live In Ponds And Lakes Are, The Bitterling, And The Platypus. The Bitterling And, The Platypus Are Specially Adapted To These Waters In these ways. The Platypus’s Adaptations Are That It Is Specially Adapted To Freshwater Some Might Even Call It A Freshwater-Predator. And The Bitterling’s Adaptations Are, That It Lives In Strongly Vegetated Areas Like A Pond Because, Ponds Have Many Plants That Can Withstand The Shallow Water. So The Bitterling Feeds Off Of these Plants.

Two Plants That Live In Ponds, And Lakes Are, Cattail And, A Jack-In-The-Pulpit. Like Many Others These Plants Are Specially Adapted To The Ponds And Lakes.  The Cattail’s Adaptations Are The Shallow Water Of A pond. The Cattail Is Specially adapted Because Of the Shallow Water In The Pond To Support It.  The Jack-In-The-Pulpit’s Adaptations Are, The Algae that Grows In the Ponds. The Algae That Grows In lakes And Ponds Give Oxygen To The Water And The Jack-In-The-Pulpit Absorbs The Oxygen, Well Some Of The Oxygen And That Helps It To Stay Alive.

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