At Home in the Coral Reef by Katy Muzik

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Book: At Home in the Coral Reef
Author: Katy Muzik
ISBN-13: 978-0-88106-486-5

1. tiny animals called coral polyps
2. zillions
3. they use their little arms to catch food
4. tentacles
5. 8 tentacles
6. 12, 24,48 or more
7. planula
8. pink
9. little hairs
10. by waving their little hairs
11. no
12. a blue headed fish
13. the blue headed fish, wrasses
14. brittle stars
15. to scare away lobsters and crabs
16. to show other worms where they are
17. by blinking
18. the red mangrove tree
19. sponges and seaweeds grow on the roots
20. By ocean waves pounding the skeletons of reef animals and plants into smaller and smaller bits.  Eventually, the bits formed into many grains of sand
21. The dirt smothers the coral polyps and blocks the sunlight they need
22. chemicals from factories and farms
23. bacteria
24. divers hurt the coral by stepping on it and boat anchors
25. yes
26. yes
27. a hard white skeleton
28. grow more tentacles
29. copepods
30. crabs and shrimps
31. gobies
32. little golden plants
33. 1,000 years
34. a few years
35. answer vary