Check out some cool pictures of coral. Can you name them?

1. Look at each picture. After seeing the pictures, do you think these are pictures of plants, rocks, or animals?

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15. These are all pictures of CORAL.

16. Yellow pencil coral Great Star coral Orange cup coral Flower coral Brain coral Bubble coral Lettuce Coral

17. Anticipation Guide Mark True or False on the left for each statement.

18. What is a coral? Corals are tiny animals, called polyps, that are related to and look like sea anemones. Each coral secretes a stony cup of limestone around itself as a skeleton. The polyps divide as they grow and form coral colonies. As the coral colonies build up on top of each other, they gradually form a coral reef. Individual coral colonies may be up to 1000 years old. Coral reefs may be many thousands of years old, forming slowly over time, responding to changes in sea level and other environmental conditions.