79. Reading Skills Comprehension: The Underwater Coral City

The Underwater Coral City

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The underwater coral city is a unique and diverse collection of colourful and weirdly patterned animals. This city is planned by tiny architects who have devised an interrelated web of large and complex structures, intricate waste disposal system, even its own water conditioning plant. Most of the problems of a city are present: food supply and distribution, that of accommodation and living space, leading to large scale squatting and a shift system, a large floating population, immigration and a balancing force of criminal predators.

The islands are low, merely a metre or two above the sea level, yet they withstand the powerful hurricanes and waves of the Arabian Sea. It is because they are encircled by a protective reef, any destruction during an attack by pounding waves is quickly repaired by its microscopic engineers and architects before the next wave comes—not merely repaired but something more constructed, so the net effect is that of growth. It is algae that make the reef farmland with many stony pastures. It provides food to much herbivorous fish that tear various blue, green, red and brown algae from the reef. So many such fish are there in the placid waters of the lagoon that their combined crunching sound can be heard by divers and swimmers. Not only do the herbivores survive by staying in the nooks and crannies at night, but also secure living quarters for them on the crowded reef.

Questions                                                                              

1.What is so unique about the underwater coral city?

2. Who has planned the city? How do they plan their city?

3. How are the problems similar to those of a real city?

4. Where are the Islands situated in the sea?

5. How do they withstand the powerful hurricanes and waves of the Arabian Sea?

6. How do they repair the damage caused by the pounding waves?

7. How does the coral city become a feeding ground for herbivorous fish?

8. What is the other important uses of the coral reefs?

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