Question 8 • FA Vandergrift Environmental Science 2026-27
Coral reefs are built by colonies of many tiny coral animals called polyps. Over time, thousands of individual coral organisms can live together and build the reef, so choice D is true. Coral reefs generally support many species rather than few, and most reef-building corals grow in shallow, sunlit water rather than deep sea regions.
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