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S EA T URTLE. BY EMMA MANSOURIAN. I NTRODUCTION. NAME OF ANIMAL : SEA TURTLE Physical features- what it looks like: it has four legs, smooth skinned or scaly. It has a round shell and cold blooded. LIFESPAND, ENDANGERED?: They are endangered. There lifespan is 50 years to 100 years.
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SEA TURTLE BYEMMA MANSOURIAN
INTRODUCTION • NAME OF ANIMAL : SEA TURTLE • Physical features- what it looks like: it has four legs, smooth skinned or scaly. It has a round shell and cold blooded. • LIFESPAND, ENDANGERED?: They are endangered. There lifespan is 50 years to 100 years. • SPECIES: Logger head (Coretta Coretta)
HABITAT • WHERE IT LIVES: Ocean • Climate: SEA TURTLES can live any were it just depends on the place there in. • LANDFORMS: SEA TURTLES live throughout the worlds ocean. Females only get out of the water to lay there eggs, but then get back into the water.
FOOD • SEA TURTLES are omnivore's they eat plants and animals like grasses, crabs, fish and some shrimp. Some hawksbill eat mostly sponges and leather backs eat jelly fish. • When a predator of a SEA TURTLE comes it is mostly when it hatches like, birds, crabs, dogs, foxes and raccoons. When they are bigger it is much safer.
BEHAVIOR • FLAT BACK SEA TURTLES sometimes spend hours on the surface floating asleep or in the sun. They usually stay in the water but sometimes goes out of the water.
REPRODUCTION • Female sea turtles usually goes back to there their home to lay there eggs. Males don’t goes back to there home on land. • They are born on land but goes quickly to water.
ADAPTATION • They have slow metobolic rate (cold blooded) • For limbs modified long, paddle like flippers for swimming.
BEHAVIORAL • When there hatched they go straight into the water.
FUN FACTS!!! • Most of the SEA TURTLES can put there legs, tail and head in there shell when there frightened • SEA TURTLES can stay in seawater with no fresh air • SEA TURTLES have been on earth more then tow hundred million years.