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How many sea turtles comprise the species?
What is 5?
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What environmental feature determines if a sea turtle will be male or female?
What is the temperature of the sand?
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A mutual relationship between two organisms that may be harmful or helpful is known by this term.
What is symbiosis?
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A sea turtle is considered an adult at what age?
What is 30 years?
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What is the smallest sea turtle?
What is Kemp's Ridley
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Each turtle has a unique arrangement of _________ that make up a carapace (shell).
What are scutes?
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These type of threats include ants, raccoons, vultures, ghost crabs, lizars, and sea birds.
What are natural threats?
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An animal that hunts and eats other animals is called this.
What is a predator?
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What do Leatherback Sea Turtles confuse chemical light sticks used on fishing lines for?
What is jellyfish?
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Which sea turtle can be toxic to other sea animals?
What is Hawksbill
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All sea turtles have reptile characteristics, name one of the 5.
What is: 1. vertebral column, 2. epidermal scales 3. air breathing, 4. internal fertilization, or Ectothermic(cold blooded)
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This type of sea turtle prefers to eat sponges.
What is the Hawksbill sea turtle?
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An animal that is hunted by other animals is referred to as this.
What is prey?
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Characteristics that classify animals as repliles.
What are vertebral columns, epidemal scales, ectothermic, and oviparous?
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Why is the Green sea turtle colored green?
They eat sea grass, algae, and green plants which stain their insides green.
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How far back in time do sea turtles evolve to?
What is 200 million years ago.
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This word refers to a third eyelid or built in googles.
What is a nictitating membrane?
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What determine's whether a sea turtle is male or female?
What is temperature of the nest?
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Sea turtles and other reptiles both have
What is cold-blooded, a vertebral column, epidermal scales, ectothermic or oviparous?
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What sea amimal can eat any size turtle?
What is a shark?
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What anatomical feature of a sea turtle functions as both a wing and a propellor?
What are the front flippers?
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This is a bony shield covering the top side of a turtle.
What is a carapace?
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Hatchlings use a specialized egg tooth to break free of the egg shell, what is this egg tooth called?
What is a caruncle?
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A vertebral column is also called a
What is a spinal column?
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What is a good way to keep turtles safe on our beaches?
What is learn up the garbage?
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