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The skeletons of dead corals are the foundation upon which layerer upon layer of successively younger animals attach themselves. The coral animal, or polyp, is colulmn shaped. Its lower end is attached to the hard floor made of the preceding coral skeletons of the reef, and its upper end extends into the water. There hard and soft corals, depending on the type of skeleton secreted. The hard-coral polyp deposits a cup-like solid skeleton of calcium carbonate around itself into which the polyp withdraws during the daytime. For this reason, deep sea divers see only the skeletons-and not the polyps-of hard corals.
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Marine organisms such as coral and shellfish have carbon in their bodies in what forms?
Calcium Carbonate <3
How can bone fragments be broken down by the body?
Bone fragments are made of calcium carbonate. When calcium carbonate is eaten and enters the stomach, the acids in the stomach will dissolve the calcium carbonate.
What is CaC03?
Calcium carbonate?
What mineral is found in cartilage?
calcium carbonate - ca2cho
Are egg shells biodegradable?
Yes, the egg shells are biodegradable. The egg shell is made up of calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate and calcium phosphate.
How is hard coral created?
By secreting calcium carbonate skeletons.
What mineral forms on the skeletons of coral animals?
calcium carbonate
What substance makes coral hard?
Calcium carbonate
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN CORAL DIE?
The tissues that make up their bodies decays and falls apart. If it is a hard coral, then a calcium carbonate skeleton is left behind.
What is a diverse and fragile ecosystems formed from coral shells of calcium carbonate?
You think of course to coral reefs.
What does Sodium carbonate and Calcium chloride make?
calcium carbonate
What is heated with calcium carbonate to make cement?
calcium carbonate :)
What is coral formed from?
The active agent in coral formation is a small animal called a polyp. The coral you see is a protective shell (like clam's shell) the polyp makes from calcium carbonate which the polyp extracts from seawater. As each tiny polyp dies its calcium carbonate shell is covered over by succeeding generations of polyps and their calcium carbonate homes.
Is coral calcium salt?
No. Coral itself is a kind of living organism related to jellyfish and sea anemones. They do build shells made of calcium carbonate, however, which is a calcium salt.
How does algae benefit from living insdie coral polyps?
When a coral polyp is formed it takes in the algae and the algae carries onto photosynthesis inside the coral. The algae later helps the coral change calcium salts in seawater into a hard calcium carbonate structure that makes up a coral reef. Without the algae helping to create calcium carbonate, a coral reef wouldn't have it's nice structure.
What is a water ecosystem formed from the calcium carbonate secreted by a particular animal?
Assuming that the animal secreting the Calcium Carbonate is a coral, the ecosystem would be called a reef ecosystem.
Coral reefs are made of?
Coral reefs are calcium carbonate. They are built from stony corals, which consist of polyps that cluster in groups.
