Question

Read the paragraph then answer the question:

(1) The coral reef is a beautiful underwater landscape. (2) Coral is a actually a type of animal made of polyps that filter feed off small plants and microscopic animals that float through the current. (3) Many other animals live here as well including turtles, sharks, and 1,000s of types of fish. (4) The coral can be hurt by too much carbon dioxide being dissolved in the water from the air above. (5) If the coral dies, the reef becomes bare rock and sand no longer full of life.

Which sentence above BEST shows how the atmosphere is a part of the coral reef?


(2) Coral is a actually a type of animal made of polyps that filter feed off small plants and microscopic animals that float through the current.


(3) Many other animals live here as well including turtles, sharks, and 1,000s of types of fish.


(4) The coral can be hurt by too much carbon dioxide being dissolved in the water from the air above.


(5) If the coral dies, the reef becomes bare rock and sand no longer full of life.

Answer 1

(5) If the coral dies, the reef becomes bare rock and sand no longer full of life.

Step-by-step explanation:

The atmosphere is a part of coral reef because a large population of organisms lives in these coral reefs. It provides habitat to the biosphere of the ocean as well as oxygen to the marine organisms. It can greatly affected with the increase concentration of carbondioxide due to acidification of water that kills the algae that is lives on the surface of these coral reef. So if these algae die due to lowering of pH, a large portion of marine organisms also removed from the environment due to unavailability of suitable environmental conditions.