Post on 13-Jul-2015
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The Wonders of Sea Turtles!!Written By Maddie
About The Author
• I like spaghetti.• I want to be a vet
when I grow up.• I like to collect glass
bears.
Who am I?
• When they aresleeping they can godeep in the waterwedged under rocksor sleeping at the thesurface.
The Early Years!!
• When they are beingincubated if the sandis cooler it makesmore males.
• If the sand is warmerit makes morefemales.
• The babies are calledhatchlings.
Habitat Sweet Habitat
• It lives in the oceanwith rocks, coral,sand, different plantsand animals.
• Which would be cool.
What’s on the menu?
• Sea turtles areomnivores. Which meansthey eat both meat andplants.
• They eat sponges,jellyfish,sea urchins,mollusks, crustaceans,tunicates, shrimp, and,squid. They also eatdead marine animals,grasses, and other plantsat the bottom of theocean.
Making tracks
• It doesn’t make tracksin the water, but itdoes make trackswhen it’s on the sand.
• Their tracks are wavylooking.
Simply Irresistible!
• Some of the seaturtles threats arehumans, fishing andmore things thathumans are doing.
Where in the World?
• They are found in theoceans and seas, Allover the world.
• Did you know?• A mom sea turtle
does not care for herhatchlings.
• She leaves them inthe nest to go intothe world bythemselves.
• Fun Facts!• Turtles can get
huge!• The babies are 1 to
2 inches long.
Internet List
• http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl0/1/15300/10_2008/sea_turtle.jpg
• http://culebrablog.com/images/hatchling4.jpg• http://hawaiiwego.com/kapoho-vacation-
rental/sea-turtle/1-arthurena-graceful• http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/students/coral/image
s/coral_polyp_1.jpg• http://www.seaturtlefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/olive-ridley-caught-in-ghost-net-ian-bell-2004-web.jpg