Word List Reefs 123 words

Reefs Vocabulary Word List (123)

• A

  acidification, algae, algae, alive, animals, Anthozoa, atmosphere

• B

  beauty, behavior, biodiversity, biology, bleaching

• C

  calcareous, carbon dioxide, centuries, chain, clarity, climate, coastal, col mining, colonies, color, conch, coral

• D

  dance, dangers, density, depths, digging, discovery, divers, diversity

• E

  ejections, encounter, energy, environment, exoskeleton, exploitation, extraction

• F

  fertilizer, fish

• G

  Great Barrier Reef, greenhouse gases, growth

• H

  historical, human

• I

  impact, imperforate, injury, invertebrates, investigate, islands

• J

  jewelry

• K

• L

  lethal, life, light, living, living

• M

  marine, measurements, Mid-Pacific, minerals, MPA (Marine Protected Areas)

• N

  naturalists, navigation, numbers, numerous, nutrients

• O

  observations, ocean, organisms, overfishing, oxygen

• P

  park-like, perforate, peril, petroleum, photosynthesis, phylum, pigment, plankton, pollution, polyp, protection

• Q

• R

  reef, rocks

• S

  scale, scientific, scrutiny, scuba, sea, sea level, seaweed, shallows, shells, ships, shoals, skeleton, snorkeling, Southeast, spawning, species, sponge, strike, subtropical, sunlight, surface, survival, survivor, sway, system

• T

  tectonics, tentacles, tourism, tropical, tuna, turtle

• U

• V

  vast, viewing

• W

  waters, wreck

• X

• Y

• Z

  zooxanthellae