Sharks are often feared but are not as dangerous as imagined. They kill fewer people annually than elephants or dogs. Soda machines actually kill more people each year than sharks when people attack machines that steal their money and the machines fall on them. Great white sharks can be up to 20 feet long, detect blood from long distances, and have serrated teeth and a cartilaginous skeleton adapted for swimming.

3. No they are far more fearsome in our
imaginations than in reality.

4. • Elephants are bigger killers: They do in 200+
• Talk about vicious, Dogs kill thousands
• Get This:
– Soda Machines killed more people last year than
sharks did.
• People get angry when the machine steals $0.75so they
begin to viciously attack the machine, trying to make it
cough up either the soda or cash. The machine decides
to retaliate by falling on and crushing them.

7. Fun Facts
• Largest predatory fish on earth
• Average length is 15 feet (4.6 meters)
• Specimens exceeding 20 feet (6 meters) and weighing
up to 5,000 pounds (2,268 Kilograms) have been
recorded.
• Slate-gray upper bodies to blend with the sea floor
• Name comes from universally white underbellies
• Streamlined, torpedo-shaped swimmers with
powerful tails
• Tails can propel them through the water at speeds up
to 15 miles per hour.

9. Did You Know??
Great White Sharks can detect one drop of blood in 25
gallons of water and can sense even tiny amounts of
blood in the water up to 3 miles away.

11. Anatomy
Powerful body supported by a cartilaginous skeleton
(as opposed to the bone skeleton of most other
vertebrates)
Streamlined for efficient movement through water
Has a pointed snout
Two large, sickle-shaped pectoral fins
A large triangular first dorsal fin
Mouth is armed with an array of sharply pointed,
serrated teeth
Great White
Shark Compared
to a School Bus

13. Web Sites to Look at…
• http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/Statistic
s/GAttack/mapusa.htm
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sharks/maste
rs/myths.html
• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/
sharks/allabout/