IMPORTANCE OF CORAL REEFS

Summary:

The article is about coral reefs and how they are important in this world not only to the humans but also to some other species. They help fishes by providing them a shelters to keep there eggs in safe plce where they can hide them from other pray of the oceans. They also provide food for 30 to 40 million people on the earth. The article also says that people not only benifot from the food, but also coral reefs are used as good pets. Therefore people catch them and sale them and from that income many people feed there families. The article also talks about coral reefs regulating the level of the carbon dioxide in the oceans water.

Personal Response:

The reason I picked this article is because coral reefs play an important part in this world. They not only feed the fishes and provide them shelters, but they also feed 30 to 40 million peoples on the earth and not only that coral reefs are income for some people. Coral reefs are good pets some people make money by catching them. They feed there families buy selling them. Also coral reefs regulates the the level of the carbon dioxide in the oceans water which I think is very important because for many species to survive in the ocean it is important to have the level of carbon dioxide in water.

http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/students/coral/coral4.htm