The ocean is very wide and very tall. The ocean has three zones the sunlight, twilight, and midnight zone. The sunlight zone starts at sea level and ends at 200m, the twilight zone starts at 200m and ends 1000m, last is the midnight zone which starts at 1000m and ends at 4000m. Each zone is very different.
The coral reefs area part of the sunlight zone . Coral reefs can only form in warm, clear, salty water, and only in shallow water. Coral polyp starts its life after its parent coral. The polyp drift on the top of the of the ocean surface until it attack itself to a hard surface. As a young polyp grows it combines calcium and carbon dioxide to make a hard limestone cup around its soft body . The algae and the polyp are partners. The algae make oxygen and some other nutrients that the polyp needs, in return the polyp gives off carbon dioxide and substances that the algae needs. At night the polyp eats plankton drifting within the reach of their stinging, in the day it
The last zone is called midnight zone. With water pressure can exceed 2 ton per square inch, the temperature of the water is near fresh water's freezing point, and it is completely dark. Scientists think that only 1% of all ocean species live here. Most animals that live here are scavenge the remains of dead plants and animals which drift down from the ocean's upper layers. Animals have unique organs and appendages which allow them to function in the near-total darkness. The darkness is not quit total here, because some of the creatures have built in lights, in the form of light producing organs or luminescent patches of skin. These creature use their luminoscity in different ways. Some flash their lights on and off to attract a mate. Others lure their prey within striking distance with special glowing appendages that look like worms or food. Some actually scare predators off with their special luminescent abilities. Also on the sea floor are ridges that unusual vent communities. Th
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