Seven Wonders of the Underwater World

1. by CEDAM İnternational

2.  The Rock Islands(PALAU)
 TheBelize Barrier Reef
 The Great Barrier Reef
 Deep-Sea Vents
 Galápagos Islands
 Lake Baikal
 Northern Red Sea

3. PALAU Reefs
 Over two million years ago
 343 Islands
 The islands are famous for their beaches, blue lagoons
and the peculiar umbrella-like shapes of many of the
islands themselves.

4.  300 species of sponges
 1500 species of fish
 550 species of hard and soft corals
WHY
 Endangered Species(both animals and plants)
 Coral bleaching

5. The Belize Barrier Reef
 series of coral reefs
 300-kilometer long section of the 900-kilometer
Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System
 One of the largest coral reef systems in the world after
the Great Barrier Reef

6.  Home to a large diversity of plants.
 70 hard coral species
 36 soft coral species
 500 species of fish
Brain Coral in the Great Blue Hole

7.  The most magnificent feature  The Great Blue Hole
 formed throughout the last 150,000 years
 Approximately 1000 feet across and 400 feet deep

8. The Great Barrier Reef
 The world's largest coral reef system composed of over
2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands
 Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.
 Can be seen from outer space and the world's biggest
single structure made by living organisms

9.  More than 1,500 fish species
 30Whales,Dolphins
 9 Seahorses,15 Seagrass,6 Sea Turtles
 It also include many vulnerable or endangered species
 Protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
 Limit the impact of humen use,such as fishing and
tourism.

10. Hydrothermal Vent
 A fissure(crack) in a planet's surface
 Like underwater volcanoes
 Commonly found near volcanically active places
 White smokers emitting liquid carbon dioxide

11.  Mussels,crabs,tube worms.
 Tube worms have no eyes,stomach and no mouth
 Down about 7000 to 10000 meter underwater
 Can withstand a lot of heat and pressure.
 Vent crabs can withstand 250 times more pressure
than humans do.

12. Galápagos Islands
 An archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on
either side of the Equator in the Pacific Ocean