珊瑚礁What is a coral PPT课件.pptVIP

* * What is a coral? A coral is a small, marine animal without a backbone. Corals support their soft bodies within hollow “shells”of bonelike material. 点击画面，播放影片。 If you think that coral is a type of rock, you are only partially right. That hard substance that landlubbers call coral is the hard covering created by millions of tiny corals which are animals, although they look a little like plants. How does a coral reef form? When a coral dies, its shell remains, and other corals grow on it. Over millions of years piles of remains become hard underwater rocks --- the reefs. Corals have many sha