Great Barrier Reef

Great Barrier reef
By: Menan Selladurai

Content
Slide 3: What is the Great Barrier Reef?
Slide 4: What lives in the reef?
Slide 5: Animals
Slide 6:History
Slide 7: News!!!
Slide 8: Glossary
Slide 9: Index

What is the Great Barrier Reef
The great barrier reef is the biggest living thing in the world. Scientist say that the reef is visible from space. But none of the astronauts calm to see the Great barrier Reef from space. It is located in Queenstown, Australia. The Great Barrier reef is a natural wonder of the world.

What lives in the reef?
Green sea turtle
Clown fish
Sea snakes
Marine fish
In the chart shown above the most amount of species that live the reef are the Mollusc and shellfish also the second most amount of species that live in the reef are the Marine fish. The lowest amount of species that live the Great Barrier Reef are the Sea Turtle and the Sea Snakes.
Echinoderms
Hammer shark
starfish
Marine birds
Echinoderms
Dolphins
Whales

In the GREAT BARRIER REEF there are animals that live in it. There are 6 species of turtles, 200 species of birds, 125 species of sharks, 600 species of echinoderms, 1500 species of marine fish, 30 species of whales and dolphins, 14 species of sea snake, 500 species of seaweed, 4000 species of mollusc and shellfish, 400 species of coral and 60 species of sea grass.
Animals
Sharks
Dolphins
Marine turtles
Whales
Birds
Coral

History
The aboriginal people already knew about the reef before James Cook told everyone about it. The reef may of started forming 20 million years ago, about the time of the last ice age. The reason the Great Barrier Reef got found is because James Cook got shipwreck by hitting the edge of the reef that`s shallow.
Great Barrier Reef
James Cook ship
aboriginal people

NEWS!!!
JAMES COOK IS THE FOUNDER OF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF.
It’s one of the world’s heritage area in 1981.
Guess why the Great Barrier Reef is called “Great Barrier Reef”?
James Cook
The reef is called the “Great Barrier Reef” because it has a natural barrier .
Matthew Flinders was the person who named the reef
World’s heritage area
Matthew Flinders

Glossary
world’s heritage area: A site that is on the list that is maintained.
A reef: a reef is a substance that is like a rock that is living, but is lives beneath the surface of the water.
Natural wonder: incredible wonders of the world that are made naturally or is very old.

Index
A- aboriginal people-6 O-
B- birds-4-5 P-
C- coral-5, clown fish-4 Q- Queenstown-3
D- Dolphins-5-4 R-
E- Echinoderms-4 S- starfish-4, snake-4, sharks-5-4
F- fish-5-4 T- turtle-4-5
G- U-
H-heritage area-6, history-7 V-
I- ice age-6 W- whales-4-5
J- James Cook-7-6 X-
K- Y-
L- Z-
M-Matthew Flinders-7,
N-News-6, Natural wonder-3

Great Barrier Reef

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