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Assignment #2:TheGreat Barrier Reef, an oceanic jewel located in the eastern coast ofQueensland, Australia, is the largest system of coral reefs found onEarth. It is a geological feature that is half alive (corals, sponges,shellfish, fish, etc.) and half inanimate (calcium carbonate rockyreefs). How in the world this geologic and biologic feature formed, andhow is it continually maintained? Was this Great Barrier Reef alwaysthere, since billions of years ago? Why is it so amazingly long (about1,400 miles) and why is it considered the largest biologically createdstructure in the world? Why should we humans care about the GreatBarrier Reef? Is it dying, or is it still growing? Investigate about the Great Barrier Reef and write an essay about them. The questions provided above are to motivate you to investigate about this topic; you do not need to answer them one by one. Theessay must be at least three paragraphs long, and each paragraph mustcontain at least five sentences (you can write more than threeparagraphs and more than five sentences per paragraph if you wish to doso). The content of your essay must be written entirely in your OWN words. Usein-text citations in parenthesis, APA style, if you paraphraseinformation from other authors. Paraphrasing is not copy-pasting orcopying and changing a few words from other authors’ writings it iswriting it in your OWN words to explain the authors’ writings. Only when necessary, youcan quote, but these quotes do not count towards the last tally of thenumber of paragraphs and sentences required from your OWN writing. You must cite at least three references you used to investigate about this topic at the end of your essay (use APA style). You must submit your assignment using SafeAssign; your assignment will not be evaluated if it is not submitted through SafeAssign.
