The Great Barrier Reef

Climate

The Great barrier reef has a tropical and sunny climate which is rarely cold but this area is rarely hot as well, the summer temperature averages from 73 to 91 degrees. In winter the high is in the 50s to the low 70s. It is sunny 300 days of the year, which leaves only 64 days of the year where it is rainy or not sunny. The rainy season comes in November and ends in April, 75% to 95% of the rain falls within those months. The severe weather that occurs here are Hurricanes and this specific reef is located in Australia.

Plants and Animals

Various marine creatures live in the Great Barrier Reef. This includes turtles, squid, octopus, Sharks, Dugong, and a wide variety of fish and lots of sea plants. There are over 60 species of sea grass, two of these types are Marine algae consisting of blue green algae, cyanobacteria Platonic algae.

Where is it?

The Great Barrier Reef is in Australia, which is located 24 degrees south latitude of the equator. The Great Barrier Reef stretches from Papua New Guinea in the north to Fraser island in the south. There are many islands in between that make up this reef. This stretches over 2,300 km long.


What is a predator prey relationship?

A Predator prey relationship is a relationship between two animals in which one is higher on the food chain than the other. An example of this relationship is a shark which eats fish. The shark is the predator and the fish is the prey. One more example of this is a crocodile eating a dugong. A dugong is a animal that looks much like a manatee, this is also a vegetarian like the manatee.



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For our research we used the fallowing websites:
www.wikipedia.com
www.answers.com
www.reef.crc.org