sharks by kyli petty

kylipetty — 2014-11-14 14:26:30 UTC

Great White Sharks

Sharks Attacks

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Body Parts

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Great White Sharks have many fins and gills. Blassingame
states, “The Great White Shark isn’t really white.Blassingame states, ” The back of the shark is gray or brown then a fading white on the shark’s belly (79).

Body Parts

kylipetty — 2014-11-14 14:44:39 UTC

Tricas states, “The great White Shark is a robust, and has a torpedo- shaped conical and has the normal assortment of dorsal, anal, and parled fins.” Tricas states, “Unlike most sharks, but like other macerel sharks the upper and lower
lones of its tail are almost equal in size..” (pg 158).

Body Parts

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Great White Shark states, the Great White sharks torpedo shaped bodies help to move them quickly through water. They can move up to twenty-five miles an hour. The largest internal body part of the shark is the liver, which can weigh up to twenty-four percent of the Great White’s body weight. In the shark’s mouth they have 300 teeth right next to eachother, in many rows. Great Whites have many gill slits and fins on
their bodies( National Geographic.com).

Senses

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Many Great White’s are highly intelligent even

though they have a small brain. The Great White’s teeth gives them a sense of where to attack prey (Nationalgeographic.com).

Senses

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Blassingame states, Sharks ears are not easy to be seen, there are just two openings above and behind the eyes. Sharks even have a ear stone that reacts to gravity, that tells the shark how deep it is in the ocean(pg 79).

Senses

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Great White’s eyes are divided into two parts one for daytime and one for nighttime. To protect itself the shark can retract its eyes if threatened (Nationalgeographic.com). Even though the sharks have a small brain, they are highly intelligent

Shark Attacks

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Tricas states, A small amount of people are attacked by sharks every year, but only a small fraction of them die. Fewer then four out of ten people are attacked a year. Great Whites are believed to be the blame for most of the attacks on humans, and can kill(151).

Shark Attacks

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Blassingame states, The first shark attack where someone actually died was July 2, 1916 andwas believed to be a Great White Shark. When a fisherman had reeled in a sharkwhich turned out to be a Great White the attacks stopped(pg 77). Very few people die each year from shark attacks.

Diet

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Tricas states, Great are carnivores and prey upon fish. The Great White Shark is referred to as White Death, and the White Pointer. The Great White is a flesh eating shark(pg 152).

Diet

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Blassingame states, Great White’s are more then likely to consume a seal by splitting the seal in half and eating it (pg 78). Tricas states, Adult Great White sharks eat seals and sea lions as a main part of their diet ( pg 158)

Diet

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Tricas states, Adult Great White sharks eat
seals and sea lions as a main part of their diet ( pg 158).

Diet

kylipetty — 2014-11-18 14:22:13 UTC

Tricas states, Great are carnivores and prey
upon fish. The Great White Shark is referred to as White Death, and the White
Pointer. The Great White is a flesh eating shark(pg 152).

DIet

kylipetty — 2014-11-18 14:22:45 UTC

Blassingame states, Great White’s are more then
likely to consume a seal by splitting the seal in half and eating it (pg 78). Tricas
states, Adult Great White sharks eat seals and sea lions as a main part of
their diet ( pg 158).

Diet

kylipetty — 2014-11-18 14:24:09 UTC

Great
Whites mainly consume sea lions, carrion, seals, sea turtles, and small whales (Great
White Sharks). Sharks eat small fisher along with larger fish.

Reproduction

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Blassingame states, Sharks are reproduced in an
egg inside their mother’s stomach. Great White Sharks are ovoviviparous which
is when the mother’s eggs hatch in the womb and the baby sharks feed on
unfertilized eggs or the runts of the liter. Pups which are Great White Shark
babies are around four feet long after being born (pg 79).

Reproductio

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Reproduction

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If a Great White Shark mother sees her pup after being born, it will eat it
because of it being a small shark. (pg 25). A full grown
Great White can grow from fifteen feet long to twenty feet and they can weigh
up to five thousand pounds(Great White Sharks). Pups are the baby sharks
produced from an egg.

Habitat

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The Great White Shark lives in tropical warm
water because of being warm blooded. Great White’s live in tropical and
temperate waters. From the U.S in the Atlantic to New Foundland all the way to
Florida. Blassingame states, The Great White has also been found near the Gulf
of Mexico and near the pacific all the way to Alaska and Mexico( 77+78).

Conclusion

kylipetty — 2014-11-18 14:29:00 UTC

)Tricas states, Most sharks are found in deeper cooler parts of the oceans (158).
Great White Sharks are warm blooded, therefore, they live in warm tropical
waters. Great
White sharks are the most frightening sharks in the water.

Great White shark picture!

kylipetty — 2014-11-18 14:33:12 UTC