S EA T URTLE BY EMMA MANSOURIAN

I NTRODUCTION o NAME OF ANIMAL : SEA TURTLE o Physical features- what it looks like: it has four legs, smooth skinned or scaly. It has a round shell and cold blooded. o LIFESPAND, ENDANGERED?: They are endangered. There lifespan is 50 years to 100 years. o SPECIES: Logger head (Coretta Coretta)

H ABITAT o WHERE IT LIVES: Ocean o Climate: SEA TURTLES can live any were it just depends on the place there in. o 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.

F OOD o 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. o 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.

B EHAVIOR o 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.

R EPRODUCTION o Female sea turtles usually goes back to there their home to lay there eggs. Males don’t goes back to there home on land. o They are born on land but goes quickly to water.

A DAPTATION o They have slow metobolic rate (cold blooded) o For limbs modified long, paddle like flippers for swimming.

B EHAVIORAL o When there hatched they go straight into the water.

F UN F ACTS !!! o Most of the SEA TURTLES can put there legs, tail and head in there shell when there frightened o SEA TURTLES can stay in seawater with no fresh air o SEA TURTLES have been on earth more then tow hundred million years.