My Totem Animal and Biome.

BY Shareen Blake

Coral Reef My biome is located in the tropical areas which are closer to the equator.

  The development of coral reefs formed after the last frozen period when ice bergs were melting and caused the sea level to rise and flood the inland shelves.

What is The Temperature, Precipitation of Your Biome?

The Coral Reef biome is found only in shallow, warm water.

The water temperature is usually steady year round.

Human Contact: Even if you touch the reef slightly, it can harm it. Boats  dropping their anchors can cause horrible   damage to these fragile ecosystems. Humans occasionally kill the reefs over time.    Fertilizers & Pollution:Fertilizers go off into the reefs which cause  pesticides and other chemicals which can poison reefs. 

How has man affected your biome?

What is The Plant Life and Animal Life in Your Biome?

Marine Algae Seagrasses Mangroves

Tube SpongeVase SpongeYellow Tube SpongeRed Tree SpongeCommon Sea Squirt

Pineapple CoralStaghorn CoralBrain CoralTorch CoralStar Coral

Christmas Tree WormMagnificent Feather DusterLarge-eyed Feather DusterOrange FirewormRed-rim Flatworm 

Arrow CrabRed Hermit CrabPurple Shore CrabAnemone CrabCleaner Shrimp

Yellow NudibranchGiant ClamGiant Clam 2Flame ScallopFlamingo Tongue Cowrie Clown Triggerfish

Orange-green TriggerfishBlack TriggerfishFalco HawkfishLongnosed HawkfishRegal TangPercula Clownfish

Southern StingrayBlue Spotted StingrayLesser Electric RayPacific Manta Ray

Great White SharkTiger SharkScalloped Hammerhead SharkBlue SharkGray Reef Shark

Yellow Bellied Sea SnakeMarine IguanaHawksbill TurtleOlive Ridley TurtleLoggerhead Sea Turtle

Atlantic Bottlenose DolphinPilot WhaleWest Indian ManateeCalifornia Sea LionKiller Whale

Wow Facts

  there are many different reefs like the Atoll reef, the Barrier Reef,  and the Fringing Reef? the Great Barrier Reef is

the only natural structure that you can see from space?

  full grown coral will eat little baby coral?

 if you cut yourself on coral and you don't clean it, the coral will grow inside your skin?

DID YOU KNOW?

Totem Animal

My totem animal is  the percula clown fish.

The Percula clown fishes habitat is the coral reef the fish lives in the sea anemone.

Habitat

Food

The clown fishes diet is plakton and also the clown fish feeds on little crustaceans.

The clown fish is suited for its environment because the fish lives in the sea anemone which the fish does not get stung by the tentacles. So the fish survives by living in the sea anemone because the anemone does all the work by killing the other fishes that would try to eat the clown fish.

Wow Facts

 clown fish have a slimy substence on their body and thats the reason why they can live in the sea anemone?

 there are many different colours of clown fish?

 clown fish are born males then transition into females?

DID YOU KNOW?

Tomato Clownfish Pink Skunk Clownfish

Maroon Clownfish

This are the 3 different kinds of clown fish.

The End

Percula clown fish