2. What is a turtle?
• [tur-tl] Noun, plural turtles ( especially collectively ) turtle.
Any reptile of the order Testudines, comprising aquatic and
terrestrial species having the trunk enclosed in a shell
consisting of a dorsal carapace and a ventral plastron.
http://turtletown.giblar.com/anatomy.html
3. What is the difference between
turtles and tortoises?
• Turtles are aquatic, spending a majority of their lives in
the water.
• Tortoises are terrestrial, spending most of their lives on
land.
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiated_tortoise•http://www.glogster.com/janineandkayla/the-atlantic-green-
sea-turtle/g-6oa0d813nna6sr7tss77d6r
4. Life cycle of a turtle
• It is not known precisely how long turtles live in the wild,
but scientists believe it may last as long as a century.
Unfortunately, turtles face many threats related to human
activities.
http://passionpinkandpearls.blogspot
.com/2012/07/baby-turtles.html
• Baby: The life cycle of a turtle begins when a mother turtle
lays eggs on a nesting beach. After about two months later a
tiny, hatchling turtle makes its way to the water.
http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2008/12/
• From the time of their first swim, until they return to the
coast as juveniles, may be as long as 10 years, named the
“lost years” as the turtles are very mobile and hard to track.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15110576
• Once they reach sexual maturity, they will migrate to nesting
areas to breed. Only the females will come ashore to lay eggs,
generally in the area where they were born. Most species will
nest multiple times during a nesting season, about every 2-4
years over the course of their life. http://www.socwall.com/desktop-
wallpaper/5578/turtle-on-the-black-sand-
beach-puna'lu'u-by-kenneth-patrick/
5. Fun Facts
• There are about 320 species of turtle in the world, half of which are
endangered.
• Turtles have no teeth.
• Research has shown that tortoises do not yawn back when another
tortoise yawns at them.
• The Greek writer of tragedies, Aeschylus, is said to have been killed in
456BC when a bearded vulture dropped a tortoise on his bald head.
•http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2205446/Turtle-
y-awesome-dude-Underwater-alls-water-paddle.html http://www.oddee.com/item_98665.aspx
![What is a turtle?
• [tur-tl] Noun, plural turtles ( especially collectively ) turtle.
Any reptile of the order Testudines, comprising aquatic and
terrestrial species having the trunk enclosed in a shell
consisting of a dorsal carapace and a ventral plastron.
http://turtletown.giblar.com/anatomy.html](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)