Brittany Wright by Brittany Wright https://padlet.com/wrightbrittanyr/1ccr5c4y0s24lxmo Turtles en-us 2021-04-28 16:38:11 UTC 2025-11-27 05:41:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f422.png Why should we care about sea turtles wrightbrittanyr https://padlet.com/wrightbrittanyr/1ccr5c4y0s24lxmo/wish/1470291666
  • We do know is that sea turtles even at diminished population levels plays an important role in ocean ecosystems by maintaining healthy seagrass beds and coral reefs
  • Providing key habitat for other marine life, helping to balance marine food webs and facilitating nutrient cycling from water to land  
  • Without seagrass beds, many marine species humans harvest would be lost ,as would the lower level of the food chain


    • ]]>     2021-04-28 17:35:53 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightbrittanyr/1ccr5c4y0s24lxmo/wish/1470291666     What are Sea Turtle personality wrightbrittanyr https://padlet.com/wrightbrittanyr/1ccr5c4y0s24lxmo/wish/1470305681
  • They are quiet, shy and harmless yet display intelligence
  • They can identify their keepers and know when itś feeding time.
  • Turtles and tortoises are very sensitive to loud noises, vibrations, and sudden bright lights
  • Move slowly around them as they can be quick to frighten if the feel threatened.
  • If frightened, most will withdraw their head, legs and tall into their shells; though aquatic turtles will first try to swim quick away

    • ]]>     2021-04-28 17:38:36 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightbrittanyr/1ccr5c4y0s24lxmo/wish/1470305681     What do they eat wrightbrittanyr https://padlet.com/wrightbrittanyr/1ccr5c4y0s24lxmo/wish/1471962264
  • Loggerhead: Hatchling are omnivores which mean they eat both animals and plants  but adults are carnivores, favoring crabs, whelks and conchs
  • Green: Fully grown sea turtles are herbivores and like to hang around coral reefs to scrape off seagrass and algae
  • Hawksbill: The bird-like beak that gives them their name allows hawksbills to access cracks on coral reefs to reach sea sponges, which are pretty much all these fussy eater want.
  • Leatherback: Leatherback turtles are often known as gelatin ivores, meaning they only eat invertebrates such as jellyfish and sea  squirts
  • Flatback: The species will eat everything on the menu for Kempś ridley with a strong preference for crab.


    • ]]>     2021-04-29 03:09:02 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightbrittanyr/1ccr5c4y0s24lxmo/wish/1471962264     How do sea turtles find their mates wrightbrittanyr https://padlet.com/wrightbrittanyr/1ccr5c4y0s24lxmo/wish/1471964478
  • To mate, a male will climb onto a female back while she swimming horizontally in the water.
  • On their front flippers, males have long claws, which they use to hook on the leading edge of the femaleś shell, these claws are quite sharp and will often cut into the femaleś soft flesh near her shell.


    • ]]>     2021-04-29 03:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightbrittanyr/1ccr5c4y0s24lxmo/wish/1471964478     Climate wrightbrittanyr https://padlet.com/wrightbrittanyr/1ccr5c4y0s24lxmo/wish/1471972406
  • Now climate change is exposing sea turtles to even greater existential threats.
  • Sea level rise stronger storms will erode and and destroy their beach habitats.
  • Warming  oceans will change ocean currents, potentially introducing sea turtles to new predators and harming  the coral reefs some of them need to survive.
  • Since the temperature of the beach sand that female sea turtles nest in influences the gender of their offspring during incubation
  • Our warming climate may be driving sea turtles into extinction by creating a shortage of males, according to several studies
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  • Since they are cold-blooded, sea turtles have a slow metabolic rate.
  • Leatherbacks can dive  4,200 feet deeper than any other turtle and can stay down for up to 85 minutes.
  • Green Sea Turtles can stay underwater for as long as 5 hours
  • Other Sea Turtles, leatherback lack a rigid breastbone .
  • During long dives, blood is shunted away from tissues tolerant of low oxygen levels toward the heart, brain, and central nervous system.
    • ]]>     2021-04-29 03:21:04 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightbrittanyr/1ccr5c4y0s24lxmo/wish/1471986642     Where do sea turtle lay there egg wrightbrittanyr https://padlet.com/wrightbrittanyr/1ccr5c4y0s24lxmo/wish/1476327853
  • All turtles lay their egg on land 
  • The temperature eggs are hatched in determines their gender
  • Cooler weather usually produces male
  • Females are produced in warmer weather
  • After the mother hatched her eggs, she covers them up and leaves them to take care of themselves 
    • ]]>     2021-04-30 00:31:06 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightbrittanyr/1ccr5c4y0s24lxmo/wish/1476327853     How many species do sea turtles wrightbrittanyr https://padlet.com/wrightbrittanyr/1ccr5c4y0s24lxmo/wish/1476343968
  • There are seven different species of sea turtles
  • Six of them are Green Hawksbill, Kempś ridley, Leatherback, Loggerhead
  • The olive ridley can be found throughout the ocean  in both warm and cool waters.
  • The seventh species, flatback , live only in  Australia
  • Sea turtles along with other turtles and tortoises, are part of the order Testudines.

    • ]]>     2021-04-30 00:36:49 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightbrittanyr/1ccr5c4y0s24lxmo/wish/1476343968     Are Sea Turtles Vertebrates or Invertebrates wrightbrittanyr https://padlet.com/wrightbrittanyr/1ccr5c4y0s24lxmo/wish/1476345860
  • Sea turtles are among the worldś most ancient vertebrates
  • Sea Turtles are reptiles, like snakes and lizards, and breathe air.
  • Their spine is connected to the roof of the inside of their shell
  • Which is why they can swap shells or get out of the ones they were born with ,or it will kill it 
  • When on land, they  look cumbersome and awkward, their powerful front flippers struggling  to pull their weight across ocean shores.


    • ]]>     2021-04-30 00:37:29 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightbrittanyr/1ccr5c4y0s24lxmo/wish/1476345860     Who are the sea turtles predators wrightbrittanyr https://padlet.com/wrightbrittanyr/1ccr5c4y0s24lxmo/wish/1480384975
  • Sea Turtles predators are Crabs, raccoons, boars, birds, coyotes,and sharks  all play their role in natural food chain as sea turtle predators.
  • Adult Sea Turtles have a few predators, mostly large sharks.
  • Tiger sharks in particular, are known for eating sea turtles.
  • Killer wales have been known to prey on leatherback turtles.
  • More than 90% of hatchings are eaten by predators
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