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