# Inside Info: Taking Apart a Coral Reef

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- Book: [Inside Info: Taking Apart a Coral Reef](https://www.bookquiver.com/chris-oxlade/inside-info-taking-apart-a-coral-reef) ([Inside Info: Taking Apart a Coral Reef.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/chris-oxlade/inside-info-taking-apart-a-coral-reef.md))
- Authors: [Chris Oxlade](https://www.bookquiver.com/chris-oxlade), [Sean O'Brien](https://www.bookquiver.com/sean-obrien)
- Publisher: wayland
- ISBN: 978-15-2632-717-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2026-02-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Peel back, take apart, reassemble and enjoy the awesome science of a coral reef! Inside Info: Taking Apart a Coral Reef is full of all the most colourful, microscopic and surprising features of a coral reef. Picking apart the built-up layers of this beautiful biome - the tough coral skeleton and the delicate polyp structures - and uncovering the reef's many inhabitants, we get to know the pieces and partnerships that make a coral reef so vital to our oceans. Finally, see how it all goes back together as a symbiotic whole, and learn the science of saving reefs around the world. Contents include: Welcome to the coral reef / Under the surface / Coral polyps / Stingers and algae / Reef growers / Life on the reef / Fish around the reef / Nooks and crannies / Camouflage / Colours and patterns / Predators / Building up a reef / Reefs in danger (bleaching, invasive species, climate change) Inside Info is a stylish and engrossing series of books diving into the layers of things kids are curious about - giving them the chance to pull it all apart and put it back together again, while learning STEM fundamentals! Full of cross-sections, cutaways, exploded diagrams, labels, jokes and Easter-egg details for the curious reader aged 7+ to discover. The series presents the Inside Info of: Supercars, A Rocket, A Rollercoaster, A T. rex, The Human Body and A Coral Reef