Today I wrote my first essay as you can see it's about green sea turtles 🐢🐢🐢 here it is!!!😀😀
I, as a 10 year old boy, am really interested in green sea turtles
because first of all, they are endangered and that is why people all around the
world are helping them, and secondly, they move through the water so gracefully
and majestically, and finally, they are just plain adorable.
Green sea turtles weigh 700 pounds and are called GREEN sea
turtles because of their greenish skin. They are reptiles (vertebrates and
cold-blooded) and they can also filter out the salt from salt water!!! Green
sea turtles are 3-4 feet long and have been around before dinosaurs
(100,000,000 years).
Being cold-blooded, green sea
turtles live in the shallows of warm tropical oceans and in coral reefs. Did
you know that the gender of the hatchlings is decided by the temperature of the
sand around the clutch of eggs (colder then 30C is boys; warmer is girls)? Young
green sea turtles are omnivores but adults are herbivores. Adults eat kelp and
seaweed.
One of the sad things about green
sea turtles is that only 1/10th of 1% of their babies survive. Green
sea turtles lay their eggs in the sand where the eggs are safe but not most of
the baby turtles because predators like birds and crabs think they are a tasty
snack. Did you know that green sea turtles are like salmon? They find their way
back to their hatching place.
In conclusion, green sea turtles are
remarkably interesting and fascinating. One day I hope to go swimming with the
green sea turtles!!!
