This is an 8th grade informational text about the biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia. While reading, students should determine a central idea of the text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text. Students should also analyze how the text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (License: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License).