The document describes the green sea turtle. It notes that the green sea turtle has a brownish yellowish green shell that can reach up to 450 pounds in weight. It lives in tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including warmer areas like Florida and Mexico that it migrates to. The green sea turtle is endangered due to loss of habitat, diseases, and entanglement in fishing nets and lines. Conservation efforts aim to help the turtles by rescuing them from nets and studying diseases, while people can help by avoiding turtle nesting beaches and not using boats near where they swim.

1. By Maggie Nardelli
By: Maggie Nardelli

2. What does the Green Sea Turtle look like?

3. Description
 The green sea turtle has a brownish yellowish greenish shell with amazing designs
 They have olive brown skin
 They can weigh up to 450 pounds
 Adults can grow up to 5 and a half feet
 The approximate size of a female Green Sea Turtle nesting in Florida is about 3.3 feet
 Each flipper has one and only one claw on it

4. Where does the Green Sea Turtle live?

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Habitat and Range
The green Sea Turtle has three habitats
The high-energy oceanic beaches, for laying the eggs
Shallow waters for feeding
And when they live farther from shore, they like to stay near
coral reefs, beds of sea grass.
• The green Sea Turtle migrates to warmer water, like Mexico and
Florida, or even New York waters!
• They live in tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic
Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Mediterranean Sea.
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The red is where the Green Sea Turtle migrates to and from

6. Who are they related to ?

7. Who is the Family of the Green Sea
Turtle?
The green sea turtle is part of the Cheloniidae family.
Cheloniidae means Hard-shelled Sea Turtle. some of the
relatives of The Green Sea Turtle are:
 The Logger Head Sea Turtle
 Kemps ridley Sea Turtle
 Olive ridley Sea Turtle
 The Hawksbill Sea Turtle
 The Flat Back Sea Turtle
 The Leather Back Sea Turtle

8. Are they endangered or threatened? What is making them
endangered?

9. Status and Threats
Status
 The Green Sea Turtle is an
endangered species. It is
the only endangered sea
turtle; the rest of them are
threatened.
 Listed on July 28, 1978
Threats
 One of the major threats
of the green sea turtle is
the loss and disturbance
of their habitat.
 They can also get caught
in fishing nets and lines.
 There is also a disease of
Fibropapillomtasis that
goes through the turtles.

10. How are they being helped?

11. Recovery
 Many people are working to help by rescuing the
turtles from fishing lines and nets.
 They are studding the diseases that the Green sea
Turtle has been know for having, like
Fibropapillomtasis
 They have special ways of feeding the sick and injured
turtles with out hurting them

12. What can I do?

13. What Can You Do To Help?
 All you need to do to help is to avoid going near and
stepping on the Green Sea Turtles nesting beaches.
 You can also try to volunteer at your local Coast Guard
services, or at your local aquarium
 Don’t use fishing boats, or any kind of boat in the areas
that the Green Sea Turtle swims.
 Don’t ignore the signs that say This is an area that the
Green Sea Turtle Nests

14. Why is The Green Sea Turtle
Endangered?
The Green Sea Turtle is endangered because of
the reasons listed below:
 Loss of habitat
 Diseases
 Fishing nets and lines

15. Fun Facts
 The Green Sea Turtle can hold its breath for 5
hours, during that time, they slow their heart beat to
once every 9 minutes.
 Sea turtles have been on Earth for over 100 million
years.
 The Green Sea Turtle is a neat freak; they have turtle
washes where fish eat all of the barnacles and algae of
their backs