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Coral
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Coral Reefs
Photo Credits:
Front cover: Michael Aw/PhotoDisc/Getty Images; back cover, pages 4, 5 (top),
13 (bottom): courtesy of Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary/NOAA;
title page, pages 5 (bottom), 7 (all): courtesy Mohammed Al Momany/NOAA;
pages 3, 14: courtesy of Paige Gill/Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary/
NOAA; page 6 (left): courtesy of Steven Cook/Florida Keys National Marine
Sanctuary/NOAA; pages 6 (right), 13 (top): courtesy of Florida Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Commission; page 10: courtesy of ISS Crew, Earth Observations
experiment and the Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-JSC;
page 11 (main): courtesy of Andrew Bruckner/NOAA Fisheries;
pages 11 (inset), 12 (top): courtesy of USGS/Coastal & Marine Geology Program/
CCWS; page 12 (bottom): courtesy of David Burdick/NOAA; page 15 (left):
courtesy of Dave Burdick; page 15 (right): courtesy of Peter Craig/National Park
of American Samoa/NPS/U.S. Department of Interior
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Fountas & Pinnell
Reading Recovery
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Introduction
Table of Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
What Is Coral? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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The dark areas of the map show the location of coral reefs.
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The white areas of these corals have been bleached as the algae
that normally give them color have died.
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This officers
job is to watch
and protect
coral reefs.
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Glossary
atolls (n.) circular reefs formed
when coral grows
around islands that
later sink beneath the
surface of the sea (p. 9)
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