Warm-up: Coral

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Webquest: Coral
Use your netbook to research coral. In your
journal, write the following questions and
answer them:
1. Corals can look like rocks. How do
scientists know they are biotic?
2. Are coral plants or animals?
3. Do corals reproduce sexually or asexually
or both?
4. Some scientists predict that half of all the
world’s corals will be dead by 2030. Why?
5. What is a symbiotic relationship?
6. What organism do coral have a symbiotic
relationship with?
7. If you could examine the coral cells under
the microscope, what structures would you
see?
8. What cell organelles would be in the cells if
they were plants?
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