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The location of Coral Reefs are in tropical oceans near the Equator. They are said to be "rainforest of the ocean". You can find Coral Reefs in the Caribbean Sea, Indian Ocean, South Pacific, and the Red Sea. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest Coral Reef. The Great Barrier Reef is located North of the coast of Australia. It is 150 km. wide and 2000 km. long.

====Climate- Coral Reefs are mostly warm all year around. Coral can not grow in water less then 20 degrees Celsius. Tropical Corals can not grow in waters deeper then 50 meters. The temperature of Coral Reefs range from 26 degrees Celsius to 27 degrees Celsius. The three major zones in Coral Reefs are the buttress zone, the deep fore reef/wall, and the algal ridge. The deeper the Coral Reef zone the colder it is. The buttress zone is very warm but if you drop 20 more meters the temperature will quickly decrease. The sea surface temperatures range from as high as (36°C) in the Persian Gulf to (-2°C) near the north pole. In the algal ride the temperatures range from 26 to 29 degrees Celsius. The deep fore zone temperature is cold because it is the deepest zone that living creatures in coral reefs can live at! The sun can't shine all the way down to the deep fore wall like can it can at the algal ridge.====



====The Belize Barrier Reef is located in the lower tropical latitudes. The temperature in the winter is 16-17 degrees Celsius and in the summer the temperature is 24-25°C. The Great Barrier Reef average temperature is 28.5 and is located of the coast of Australia!====









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