Free Essays on Disadvantages Of Coral Reefs To People

  1. Coral Reef Preservation

    Coral Reef Preservation and Protection Coral reefs cover less than 1% of the ocean floor, yet they are the most important habitat in the ocean. More and more coral reefs every are killed every year by careless humans not thinking of the destruction they are causing to the reefs in their paths. Over...

  2. Coral Reef in Barbaos

    Caribbean. The reefs around Barbados cover 90 sq km. The west and south coast have an almost continuous bank reef, while corals on the northeast and southeast coast are in the best condition with high diversity but low coral cover. The Reefs at Risk analysis suggests that all the reefs around Barbados...

  3. coral reef

    Coral Reefs   The world has already lost 20 percent of coral reefs worldwide with another 15 percent in critical condition ("Epa", 2012), with this being said protection for the reefs needs to be in place. Coral reefs are a complex and diverse habitat. There are three different types of interesting...

  4. The Great Barrier Reef

    ecosystem—including coral reefs. One that’ being damaged right now, little by little, is none other than the Great Barrier Reef. Who knows—in a few decades, it might even be wiped out. Located in the Pacific Ocean, off the northeastern coast of Australia, is where the Great Barrier Reef lies. It extends...

  5. Coral Reefs

    years, known as the rain forest of the sea coral reefs are not only breathtakingly beautiful, but they are also very important in maintaining the ocean’s biological diversity . However, due to human activity, coral reefs are now under threat. Coral reefs are at risk everyday from global warming...

  6. Lawries Reef

    Location: The Great Barrier Reef is a site of remarkable variety and beauty on the north-east coast of Australia, off the east coast of the Queensland mainland It contains the world’s largest collection of coral reefs, with 400 types of coral, 1,500 species of fish and 4,000 types of mollusc. It also...

  7. Florida Coral Identification

    Coral Identification for FKCC Students One of the best ways to learn the names and four letter codes for corals is to go see them in their natural habitat. Yes, I know you do not get to go out on a boat enough, and when you do, there is never enough time to really take a good look around. The easiest...

  8. disease

    Elkhorn and staghorn corals in waters of the U.S. Virgin Islands. This tissue loss resulted in a distinct line of bare white skeleton, after which this disease is named. Although scientists are unsure about the cause of this disease, it is suspected that algal overgrowth of the coral maybe the primary cause...

  9. The Entire Refuge System Faces an Uncertain Future Given Warming Predictions

    see that animals have to make sacrifices to keep on living, just as we must do in the near future. The animals should be an early warning sign to people that our earth is changing quickly and we need to do something about it. If we don’t act soon, there will be no way of going back. The report also...

  10. The Invasive Lionfish

    that is a common attraction throughout saltwater aquariums (Invasive, 2012). Lionfish are rare to see and look much different than most fish. Many people find Lionfish interesting and mystical. This is the reason they are found in many saltwater aquariums. Lionfish are traditionally located in the Indian...

  11. Ocean Acidification

    that ocean acidification will have negative impacts on the survival of many marine organisms. Lower ocean pH damages the physiological processes of corals, zooplankton, echinoderms, coccolithophores, and mollusks, which depend on calcium carbonate to construct protective skeletons. Fish also will likely...

  12. SCI 230 Wk 9 Paper

    Barrier Reef System The Belize Barrier Reef System is located just off the coast lines of the country of Belize. The reef system is the largest in the northern hemisphere, and it is the second largest reef system in the world. The largest is the Great Barrier Reef found in Australia. The reef system...

  13. Help Makes a Difference

    the environment, but that’s not good enough. People don’t understand how serious global warming can be. If we don’t do something soon the climate will drastically change, birds and other animals will die, and the air will become polluted. It’s time that people take consideration in the environment instead...

  14. Global Warming by Definition

    These diseases are spreading rapidly worldwide. Plant and animal range shifts and population changes. In the ocean, coral reef bleaching which makes the sea species which depends on coral reef becomes extinct. Al Gore has been around the world to talk about Global warming. He struggles to reposition Global...

  15. What I Would Do

    queen lives, and maybe even mess with the guards a little bit. After that I would Europe and go to Australia, just to see the Outback and the Coral Reef. The Coral Reef and Outback are vast in their wildlife and landscape. Then I would go to Japan, to see what the world of tomorrow in technology is going...

  16. Turning Up the Heat

    450 p.p.m. (Six Degrees) and we are approaching it quickly. Carbon dioxide gas is released into the atmosphere from some of the most common items people use each day without even realizing the impact. Automobiles, one of the biggest culprits, are used by millions around the world. The vehicles' engines...

  17. Practice Questions 2009.doc uploaded successfully

    equation to mathematically describe the relationship between these rates and the rate of population change. What five countries had the largest numbers of people in 2008? 2. What is fertility rate? Distinguish between replacement level fertility (RLF) and total fertility rate (TFR). Explain why reaching the...

  18. Water Resource Plan 24

    willing to discuss this matter in a non-biased way, but as time goes on it will be realized that this plan is meant to help both sides of this issue, and people will start to help. Nobody wants to be out of a job. Besides over fishing, some techniques fishermen use to catch fish, can harm the environment...

  19. Tourism Home Work.Docx

    Honduras to Belize in June 1973, and full independence was granted on September 21, 1981. CULTURE The Belizean culture is made up of influences and people from Kriol, Maya, Garinagu (also known as Garifuna), Mestizo (a mixture of Spanish and Native Americans), Mennonites who are of German descent, with...

  20. The Problem That Affects the Entire World Today

    way is the environmental issues. Some of these problems consist of things like global warming, renewable energy, biodiversity, and recycling. Most people are starting to realize that if we keep going how we are going and don’t try to fix anything now, the problems are just going to keep getting bigger...

  21. Neighborhood

    population of organisms. The beautiful coral reef is home to a variety of organisms that each contributes to the array of colors evident there. The reef provides a shallow – water environment favorable to many organisms ─ schools of fish within and around the reef, eating algae and plankton that drift...

  22. Bosta! Dos Infewrnos

    realized that I hadn't. The magazine article said Sharm el-Sheikh was the best place to dive. And it was. Once at the hotel, I realized that many people had come on their own, some to dive, some to snorkel, and others to simply relax in a cosmopolitan resort. Camel Hotel is a beautiful hotel with...

  23. Guam

    Guam By: Paige LaBlonde History Guam is believed to have been found around 2000 B.C by sailors coming from Indonesia. The people of Guam are called Chamorros. When Europeans first arrived on Guam the society fell into three different classes: matua (upper class), achaot (middle class), and mana’chang...

  24. Is Travel Destroying the Environment?

    perspective on the global environment. Some go to great lengths, literally, to climb Kilimanjaro, snorkel around the marine life of the Great Barrier Reef, or lie around on the exotic beaches of Southeast Asia. So they are among the first to notice when things in the environment are not how they are suppose...

  25. the old men

    destroyed by human interactions. Mangrove forests are extremely productive ecosystems that provide food and services to the aquatic environment and people. If humans continue to be careless and destroy this vital but fragile environment, many habitats and species will face grave consequences for humans...

  26. Ocean Chemistry

    a lot of different things. Some people use it for leisure activities such as swimming or relaxing at the beach, some use it to pursue careers such as surfing, and others thrive off of it for business such as transportation. Even though all of these are true many people do not know about science behind...

  27. Stossel

    has been recognized and distinguished as harmful and deleterious to planet Earth since middle of the 20th century. Now, in the twenty first century, people are slowly showing signs of actions towards this issue from electric powered cars to converting natural resources to usable energy. But these progressive...

  28. Global Warming

    seawater that's more acidic has a deleterious effect on organisms with shells made of calcium carbonate, such as corals, mollusks, shellfish and plankton. The report of WWF on coral reefs says that coral populations will collapse by 2100 due to increased temperatures and ocean acidification. Scientists are...

  29. The Change We Need

    more strict regulations that don’t keep the people’s self-interests in mind must be implemented. The Tragedy of Commons reflects the tendency of people to over-utilize and eventually deplete any unregulated public resource whether it be land, clean air, or fish in the water, in their need to satisfy...

  30. global warming

    distinction of the species there. Higher level of carbon dioxide causes the acidification of the oceans. According to the report of WWF on coral reefs says that coral populations will collapse by 2100 due to increased temperatures and ocean acidification. The climatic changes are seen worldwide. Exceptional...

  31. Bora Bora

    language. Vava’u suggests that the original people to inhabit this 7 million year old island arrived from Tonga. (worldatlas.com, 2012) Bora Bora is volcanic in origin and its main island and fewer smaller islands are completely surrounded by coral reefs. Bora Bora is a part of the Society Islands...

  32. HTT 210 Week 9 Dream Vacation

    Island, Lake Manyara, and the Ngorongoro Crater. Located just a few miles off the main island of Zanzibar Chumbe Island Coral Park (CHICOP) includes a fully protected coral reef sanctuary and forest reserve harboring extremely rare and endangered animals (Chumbe Island, 2014). All buildings and operations...

  33. The Philipines

    blue seas, soft white sands, and beautiful flowers. Many of the islands remain virtually untouched and some have remote mountain regions where the people live as their ancestors have done for many generations, following ancient rituals and traditions. Some islands have championship golf courses, luxury...

  34. Global Warming essay

    Arrhenius. The Global Warming issue is a serious problem, its discovery caused different responses and marked the starting point where the way that people think and act will be philosophically and socially affected in order to create a “green” attitude towards the Earth. Here is how it works; before the...

  35. Jacques-Yves Cousteau

    June 11, 1910 and died on June 25, 1997. Cousteau was born to an upper class family and lived a luxurious childhood. His father was a lawyer for many people including a billionaire. Cousteau had always been interested in water, films and machines since he was a little boy. At the age of 13 he started film...

  36. About Famous Place in Malaysia

    multicultural and multilingual society. cultural diversity and the amazing contrast of colour, amazing tourism destinations,hi-tech life and the welcoming people truly makes Malaysia the perfect holidaying destinations. Malaysia is really like two countries in one, cleaved in half by the South China Sea. Within...

  37. Global Warming: the Last 10,000 Years

    For the last 10,000 years, the Earth's climate has been tremendously important to mankind. Today, nevertheless, major changes are taking place. People are performing an unintentional global experiment by changing the face of the entire planet. We are wiping out the ozone layer, which permits life...

  38. Environmental Issues Cause by High Energy Use

    lost more than half of its primary forest in the last five years due to the collection of fuelwood (Butler 2005). In Ethiopia, overpopulation caused people cutting all trees to sell as fire wood, thus 98% of its forested regions have lost in the last 50 years (Haileselassie 2004). Acidic Ocean ...

  39. Investigating the Cause of Global Warming

    Investigating the Cause of Global Warming Many people disagree on the issue concerning global warming. Some believe that human activities, various forms of polluting, are the main cause of global warming. Others think that not only have humans not affected the planet by any significant amount, but that...

  40. Marine

    Coral Reef Ecosystems What is a coral reef? Coral reefs are the most biologically diverse marine eco-systems on earth, rivaled only by the tropical rainforests on land. Corals grow over geologic time and have been in existence about 200 million years. Corals reached their current level...

  41. E-Marketing Plan and Prototype Web Site

    that the tourism industry decreased sharply more than half of the total economy from 8 per cent in 2005-06 to 4 per cent in 2007-08. It means that people are cut down on their holidays. Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics (2007-08) Tourism Satellite Account. Cat. No.5249.0. Canberra: ABS, page...

  42. The Bad Things That Are Happening in the Society

    Plants produce oxygen and food for animals and other benefits. If there are too many people killing one type of species, then it can go existed and then there wouldn’t be any more of them. Each year 3 million people die prematurely from waterborne diseases. ...

  43. Valladolid

    Occidental Valladolid is a fourth class municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. At the 2010 census, it had a population of 36,416 people.[3] Known as the "Food Basket of Negros Occidental," the municipality celebrates its fiesta every 28 February. Geography[edit] Valladolid Municipality...

  44. Fes

    * Inadequate access to safe drinking water for about 1.1 billion people * Groundwater overdrafting leading to diminished agricultural yields[5] * Overuse and pollution of water resources harming biodiversity * Regional conflicts over scarce water resources sometimes resulting in warfare ...

  45. Is the Planet Earth Under Threat?

    drastically. Islands such as Tuvalu could disappear, as could large parts of the Netherlands and Florida, to name just two other areas. Millions of people could be displaced from such places as Shanghai and Calcutta, as well as parts of Bangladesh. At the same time rising temperatures may also...

  46. Global Warming

    in a world of slightly over seven billion people is this even fixable anymore? Another interesting article I found was by livescience. This article says a lot of what the other resources I found said however this one was talking about how quite a lot of people think that global warming is a hoax, regardless...

  47. Doc, Docx, Pdf, Wps, Rtf, Odt

    rich marine life Marine elements like algae, sea grasses, coral reefs, salt marshes and mangroves are found here. Q.5. What is special about Koonthankulam sanctuary? Ans. Koonthankulam is a village 38.kmsaway from the Thirunelveli town. People of this village have always been the protectors of birds...

  48. Paleo

    osciliferum 4. Coelenterate Large group characterized primarily by radial symmetry Corals are most commonly preserved as fossils 5. Ectoprocta Include the bryozoans Colonial organisms, although similar in appearance to corals have much higher level of organization 6. Brachiopoda Much more important in...

  49. Ethics and Environmental Issues

    Puerto Rico was compensated with $10 million for damages caused by the oil spill almost 14 years ago. These funds will be used to build an artificial coral reef and a shore line nature reserve (Michael Melia, FoxNews.com, 2007). This is a great example of government action involving Environmental Ethics...

  50. best memory

    pyramids which were thousands of years old. The pyramids looked stunning. We went over all the area, and took many pictures. We also asked the local people to make a Mayan calendar for us based on our engagement day. It was really interesting to see how they use special instrument to make that calendar...

  51. Impacts of Global Warming

    IMPACTS OF GLOBAL WARMING At first global warming sounded like a good idea, especially to people in Northern climes. But starting in the 1960s, scientists recognized long-range problems, concentrating at first on sea-level rise and a threat to food supplies. New items were gradually added to the...

  52. The No Trivial Issue on Global Warming

    longer. Another threat is to coral reefs, in the last decade coral reefs have suffered a type of pollution known as bleaching. Bleaching happens when too much sunlight gets in to the coral reefs and damages it. This affects the animals and the ecosystem of the coral reef. Also vertebrae species populations...

  53. The Expansion of Crate and Barrel in Dubai

    customers with a low quality shopping bag! Paramount to the company’s success is locating and selling products that represent the brand and that people want to buy and display in their homes. The company looks for exclusivity when it is finding new products. With heated competition today – not only...

  54. jaedyn

    Worksheet The Reefs By Marcella Morris She clutched her lab work to her side walking briskly towards school.  The snow fell in typical New York flurries and the ground was still icy from last night’s freeze. Careful not to slip, she climbed the steps and crossed the campus towards the science...

  55. Tsunamis. Opinion Essay

    2000 put it simply as: Disaster = Hazard + Vulnerability This definition implies that a disaster only occurs when a hazard impacts on vulnerable people/communities, or when their capacity to cope with a hazard is low. Definition of vulnerability: There are many factors that contribute to...

  56. general biology classes

    source of everything in nature. 12) Carbon dioxide leaves the coral reefs defenseless against storms and anchors and other things that can harm them. They cannot rebuild so it damages them. Gas, Coal and other fossil fuels break down the reefs. 13) Hydrophilic “loves” water, a substance that...

  57. biodiversity

    tropical forests have a much greater species richness than plantations. A natural forest ecosystem provides a large number of non-wood products that local people depend on such as fruit, fuel wood, fodder, fiber, gum, resin and medicines. Timber plantations do not provide the large variety of goods that are...

  58. RINT task 1

    mangrove forests have been destroyed. (Osti R. 2005) •Coral reefs were dynamited. •As Indonesia became industrialized, coral reefs were removed to improve shipping lanes. If the reefs were still there, the tsunami would have been lessened with the reef absorbing much of the energy of the wave. (Science ...

  59. The Importance of Water and How Business Conforms in It

    future generations coming after us. Through industry we as human beings are killing our oceans by fishing too much, going around destroying coral reefs and polluting them with our own sewage and trash. Although businesses have acquired the right to do so to the use of the oceans and waters of the...

  60. Climate Change

    be diminished. These vegetation changes would disrupt large ecosystems which would exterminate endangered species and reduce the supply of water for people. Changing temperatures are causing a vegetation shift which affects the nature of our world, causing some species to be left without a sustainable...