跟讀練習: What Exactly Is Coral? - 通過影片學習英語口語
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What is coral?
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From a distance, it looks like mossy rock or bone.
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Up close, it appears to be covered in tiny flowers.
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But each of those flowers are actually an animal.
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A coral pollen.
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A round body topped with a mouth surrounded by a ring of tentacles.
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Inside, there is a simple gut lined with long threads of tissue that help digest the coral's food.
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Reef-building corals lay down a skeleton of calcium carbonate, essentially rock.
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Corals are colonial, budding off new polyps, each one connected to the one next to it,
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and genetically identical, forming a living veneer.
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Corals are hunters.
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Their tentacles are lined with millions of stinging cells that kill what they catch.
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They are super weapons on a micro scale.
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But in the clear, warm water where corals live, there's not much to catch.
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So, how do corals find food?
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The secret to their success is in their relationship with a plant.
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Living right inside their cells are tiny algae, plant cells known as symbionts.
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Like all plants, they photosynthesise.
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Using energy from the sun, they produce sugars, enough food for themselves and for their coral host.
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It's extraordinary biology, an almost alien relationship where the algae gets a home
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and the coral gets up to 90% of its food.
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And together, they build the reef.
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But because of warming oceans, there's been a massive breakdown in this crucial relationship.
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And the reef as we know it is disappearing fast.
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If science can help the reef survive, The answer may lay halfway around the world.
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On a tiny Hawaiian island, scientists are trying to understand the connection between coral and the plant inside them,
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and use that knowledge to speed up evolution.
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I'm at the Hawaiian Institute of Marine Biology, where Ruth Gates does her research.
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It's an ideal facility.
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Over here you can grow corals, and over here you can grow hammerhead sharks.
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But what's really amazing is that we are right on a coral reef.
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Dr Ruth Gates has been studying corals for over 25 years, inspired by a love of the reef.
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The coral reef is a vibrant natural city.
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It's got texture, it's got colour, it's got movement.
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You're surrounded by extraordinary things.
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Ruth and her team are investigating the mechanism of coral bleaching.
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What happens when temperatures get too high for coral?
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Hi.
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Great to see you.
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What a beautiful lab.
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Welcome.
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This special microscope lets Ruth and biologist Amy Eggers raise the water temperature to simulate warming oceans
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and observe what happens to living coral as it bleaches.
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This is the only microscope in the world that's equipped to simulate future ocean conditions
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that allows you to visualise a living organism.
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So you can really see how it's a colonial animal here, can't you?
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All of those polyps.
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The number of algal cells, or symbionts, living throughout the coral is staggering.
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Around a million in every square centimetre, an area the size of your thumbnail.
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Coral builds the reef structure that supports so much other life, so it's called a foundation species.
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If coral is a foundation species, then the symbiotes themselves are clearly a keystone species,
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because the coral cannot survive without them.
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And if the coral doesn't survive, the reef will not survive.
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When ocean temperatures get too high, the coral rejects the algae living inside it inside it in the process called bleaching.
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Coral bleaching is really the breakdown of this relationship between these plant cells and the animal itself.
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The plant cells react to high temperature and instead of creating food, they produce an irritant to the coral.
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When the animal gets stressed, somehow they break the connection and the plant cells are ousted from the system.
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Some corals belch clouds of their life-giving algal cells.
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Others release them over days in tiny clumps.
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What you see as the coral goes pale is just the clear tissues of the animal overlaying the white skeleton.
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Bleached but still living coral can clearly be seen under powerful magnification.
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It's become a ghost coral, hasn't it?
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All the structure is still there but none of the colour, none of the vibrancy.
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That is a spooky image.
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重點詞彙與短語
- 珊瑚 - coral
- 共生體 - symbiont
- 光合作用 - photosynthesis
- 珊瑚白化 - coral bleaching
- 生物多樣性 - biodiversity
- 鈣質骨骼 - calcium carbonate skeleton
- 生態系統 - ecosystem
- 基礎物種 - foundation species
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