What are corals? Plants, animals ore stones?

1. Creatures of the Deep Blue
Marjorie Crivelli
maggio 2012

3. This is coral.
Coral isn’t a
stone
or a plant.
It’s an animal.

4. Where can
you find
coral?
You can find
coral in warm
sea water*.
*acque marine
calde

5. Coral is
beautiful.
It’s very
beautiful!

6. A Corral Reef An amazing world of colours and beauty…

7. There is orange
coral…
some opened
and some
closed

8. Red coral

9. White coral

10. Green coral

11. Blue coral
… and more!

12. What are corals?
Corals are marine
animals living in
colonies , groups of
many identical
individual “polyps “.

13. What does it eat?
Coral eats small animals in
the water. It can’t swim
and it can’t move. But it
has got lots of «arms» and
«mouths». It eats small
animals when they come
MOUTH
near.

14. Coral Feeding Sun cup coral feeding in aquarium

15. How does
Paralyzing
coral catch sting
food? 1 3
Corals can catch
small fish and 2
plankton, using
paralyzing stings
on their tentacles.

16. Coral Jewels
Coral is not a
gemstone -- it is
actually the skeleton
of sea creatures that
grow in formations
resembling the
branches of a tree.
There are necklaces,
earrings and
bracelets made of
coral.

17. Coral
earrings