My First Essay

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 1/10^th 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!!!