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A Feared Animal

A Feared Animal. The Great White Shark. By: Austin Shulse. The Great White Shark.

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A Feared Animal

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  1. A Feared Animal The Great White Shark By: Austin Shulse

  2. The Great White Shark • The great white shark has 3,000 teeth and is 12 to 16 ft long. This shark is 7,000 pounds. That is 3,200 kg. Females tend to be bigger than males. A shark baby is called a pup and is 5 ft long 1.5 m long at birth.

  3. Locomotion • A great white shark almost always swim in pairs. They can swim at 15 mph 24 km.

  4. What's on the menu? • The great white shark menu is so full of food. Salmon, hake, tuna, marine, harbor seals, and rays. It is a carnivore.

  5. The Great White Shark Habitat • The great white shark lives on coastlines, offshore reefs and islands. A great white shark is rarely seen in the tropics.

  6. Great White Adaptations • The great white shark has a blue and grey dorsal fin that blends in with the bottom of the Ocean. A great white’s belly is white so it is hard to see them from below. A great white uses its colors and speed for hunting. A great white will search at the surface of the ocean. When they find prey they bump it and eat it.

  7. Great White Life Cycle/ reproduction • A baby great white shark is called a pup. They are two to fourteen feet long. The Mom fertilizes the eggs. The eggs hatch inside the Mom.

  8. Great White Behavior • The great white shark is one of a few sharks that can jump out of water. They stick there head out of water. This is called spy hopping. They look for prey this way.

  9. Great White Defense/ offense • The great white shark can uses it’s tail and jaws against anything.

  10. Great White Enemies • The great white is ranked one of ten in the top ten predators. It has no predators.

  11. Species survival status • The only great white species survival status is it is not rare. Probably because it is so scary to other animals.

  12. Something special • Great white sharks are the only apex predator. That means they have no enemies. The word shark comes from the Mayan word xoc. That means fish. The great white has been around for 350 million years.

  13. Great White Classification • The great white shark is related to a stingray. The stingray is in the back of the picture.

  14. Extra Facts • The biggest great white is 6.1 m, 1,240 kg. • It can smell one drop of blood in 25 gallons 100 liters of water.

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