Today’s kick start activity was to think of somewhere holiday you would like to go on a summer holiday and write a list of things you need to take where you wanted to go why are you wanted to go there and put all the information onto Google draw.
I decided to pick a holiday to Australia to swim with green sea turtles this is my Google draw. I have also added some sea turtle facts at the bottom as green sea turtles are endangered reptiles.
Here is Fun fact about green sea turtles before you read my Google draw.
FACT: Did you know Green Sea Turtles are special among sea turtles because they are herbivores, eating mostly seagrasses and algae.
Green Sea Turtles are an endangered reptile with around 85,000 to 90,000 in the world. They weighing around 65-130kg and are 1-1.2m long. They get their name because of the unusual green layer of fat under their shell. Scientist believe this is due to their diet of plants only.
They can travel up to recorded distance of 2,600 km for mating and nesting. They can be found nesting along the more than 80 countries around the world and lay up to 150 eggs at a time. Adult green turtles breed by the beaches where they were born. After about two months, the babies will use a special “egg tooth” to break their shells and hatch from their eggs. But when they do, they must immediately make it across the sand to the water, avoiding predators .
Green Sea turtles spend most of their lives underwater, where they can rest for up to five hours at a time before coming up to breathe however when feeding or swimming they pop up to the surface every three to five minutes for a few seconds then dive back down into the water. They swim around normally at 3 km but if they become threatened they can reach up to 35km/h.
Green Sea turtles are Suffering Extinction due to hunting, over harvesting of their eggs, loss of nesting beaches, Predators eating the eggs or Turtles after they’ve hatched and also fishing is causing danger with thousands of sea turtles accidentally caught in net every year.