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Ecosystem Snapshot: Oceans. Featured Population: sharks. Animal FACTS. Adaptations – Shark skin is made up of scales.
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Animal FACTS • Adaptations – • Shark skin is made up of scales. • All sharks have multiple rows of teeth. While they lose teeth on a regular basis, new teeth continue to grow, replacing those that they lose. Sharks lose up to 30,000 teeth in their lifetime. • Sharks use body coloration as camouflage.
The OCEAN Community mackerel whales crab squid shrimp tuna
The ocean Ecosystem • Most of the ocean’s organisms live in the sunlit zone. • The average depth of the ocean is 2–3 miles. In some places, the ocean is deeper than the tallest mountains on Earth are high! • The ocean contains about 97% of all of the water on Earth.
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