Turtles & Tortoises By Mrs. Hickey 3 rd Grade Turtle & Tortoise Fun Facts Turtles have been on the earth for more than 200 million years. The earliest.
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Turtles & Tortoises By Mrs. Hickey 3 rd Grade
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Turtle & Tortoise Fun Facts Turtles have been on the earth
for more than 200 million years. The earliest turtles had teeth and
could not retract their heads. Several species of turtles can live
to be over a hundred years of age. Turtles live on every continent
except Antarctica. Turtles range in size from the 4-inch to the
1500-pounds. The shell of a turtle is made up of 60 different bones
all connected together. Most turtle species have five toes on each
limb. Turtles have good eyesight and an excellent sense of smell.
Hearing and sense of touch are both good and even the shell
contains nerve endings. Turtles are one of the oldest groups of
reptiles and have outlived many other species. Slide Turtles
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Fresh Water Turtles Yellowbelly turtle River Cooter turtle
Spiny Softshell turtle Snapping turtle Chicken turtle
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The southeastern United States includes one of the worlds
richest regions for freshwater turtle diversity. Fresh Water
Turtles
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Fresh Water Turtle Habitats Most are found in rivers,
reservoirs, ponds, and small lakes Most often, chicken turtles
chose an older live oak and pine forest for wintering habitat Spiny
softshell turtles live in riverine habitats where they often bask
on sandbars and bury in clean sand in the river bottoms
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Fresh Water Turtle Habitats Most are found in rivers,
reservoirs, ponds, and small lakes Most often, chicken turtles
chose an older live oak and pine forest for wintering habitat
Florida softshell and Spiny softshell turtles live in riverine
habitats where they often bask on sandbars and bury in clean sand
in the river bottoms
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Fresh Water Turtles Food Common Snapping Turtles can sniff out
dead animals, which they add to their diet of plants, small birds
and fish Yellow bellied and River cooters eat insects and other
aquatic invertebrates, and plants Softshells mostly eat meat
including crayfish, fishes, and insects that live in the water,
also acorns and leaves Chicken Turtles are omnivorous, eating
crayfish, fish, fruits, insects, invertebrates, frogs, tadpoles and
plants
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Fresh Water Turtles Food Common Snapping Turtles can sniff out
dead animals, which they add to their diet of plants, small birds
and fish Yellow bellied and River cooters eat insects and other
aquatic invertebrates, and plants Softshells mostly eat meat
including crayfish, fishes, and insects that live in the water,
also acorns and leaves Chicken Turtles are omnivorous, eating
crayfish, fish, fruits, insects, invertebrates, frogs, tadpoles and
plants Move the
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Land Turtles Eastern Box turtle Gopher tortoise
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Land Turtle (tortoise) Habitats Box turtle live in open
woodlands and, during periods of inactivity, will find shelter
under leaf litter or rotting logs Gopher tortoise inhabits sandhill
oak forests, pine flatwoods, oak hammocks, and beach scrub forests
from South Carolina to Florida and west to Louisiana.
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Open woodlands Shelter under leaf litter Shelter under rotting
logs Sandhill oak forests Pine flatwoods Oak hammocks Beach scrub
forests Box TurtleGopher Tortoise
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Land Turtles Range of Eastern Box Turtle and Gopher Turtle You
Live Here!
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Land Turtle Food Box turtles are omnivores. They will eat
almost anything, animal or plant, that they can fit in their mouth.
Insects worms and slugs fruit or berry mushrooms vegetable matter
carrion Interestingly, box turtles are even able to eat many
mushrooms that are toxic to humans. Gopher tortoises are primarily
herbivores and feed on many species of low-growing plants. grasses
and legumes gopher apple Pawpaw blackberries palmetto berries
Gopher tortoises will also scavenge and occasionally feed on dead
animals.
Special adaptations for life at the sea: large shells for
protection tough beak to bite modification of limbs to flippers for
swimming Sea Turtles
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Special adaptations for life at the sea: large shells for
protection tough beak to bite modification of limbs to flippers for
swimming
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Sea Turtles journey from the beginning Hatchlings must leave
the nest to safely get to the sea to find food, shelter, and warm
water
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So how do Sea Turtles do it? They must rely on the reflection
of the moon and stars on the ocean, the downward slope of the
beach, and the lack of vegetation to get them to the sea.
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And then they return When the female is mature and is ready to
lay eggs, she returns to the very beach at which she was hatched.
She digs a hole, lays her eggs, and then returns to the ocean. and
the whole journey starts over again!
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Turtle Parts Carapace-top shell, an outgrowth of bone.
Flippers-pond turtle has flat feet, webbed toes for digging in mud,
tearing food, courtship, sea turtle has broad flippers for
swimming.
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More Turtle Parts Plastron-bottom shell Scutes-scales over both
shells, made of keratin like your fingernails Neck-pond turtle can
fold neck into its shell in S-shape, sea turtle can't
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Even More Turtle Parts Nostrils-near the top of head so turtle
won't have to stick head far out of water to breathe Beak-no teeth,
but jagged beak catches, holds, and slices food Ears-no outside
parts to slow it down underwater
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Turtle Parts Carapace Flippers Plastron Scutes Neck Nostrils
Beak
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References Ryder, C. (2003). Navigation of Sea Turtles.
Retrieved July 1, 2009. www.cccturtle.org/behav.htm www.google.com
Reptiles and Amphibians. Roger Conant/ Joseph T. Collins: ed.
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. :Sea Turtles Master Migration with
Magnetic Memories. Science. April 29, 1994 v264 n5159 p661(2)
www.unc.edu/depts/oceanweb/turtles/
http://www.dnr.sc.gov/cwcs/pdf/FreshwaterTurtles.pdf