Sharks live in oceans around the world, preferring warm or mild waters. They are apex predators that primarily eat fish. However, many shark species are endangered due to poaching and finning for their valuable fins. Conservation efforts aim to protect sharks by stopping illegal poaching activities that threaten shark populations. Sharks have evolved adaptations like sharp teeth, keen smell, and camouflaged coloration that allow them to survive as top predators in ocean habitats.

1. By Ty, Brian, and Caiden

2.  The shark is in the fish family.
 Their adaptions are cold water and salt water.
 Their meal is mostly fish.
 The shark is a fish because it has fins and
swims under water.

3.  A shark`s habitat is an ocean. Their
habitat is approximately 70% of the
earth’s surface.
 Conventionally, the ocean has been
divided into 4 major ocean basins:
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic
oceans.
 Sand tiger sharks live in warm or mild
ocean water throughout the eastern
Pacific.

4.  The shark is endangered because
poachers are finning (cutting) their top
fin off.
What is being done to protect them?
 Defenders are trying to stop poachers
from finning.

5.  All sharks have multiple rows of teeth and while they lose their teeth
on a regular basis new teeth continue to grow in and
replace the teeth they lose.
 Shark bodies are rounded and tapering at the end.
 Sharks also have a very acute sense of smell.
 Shark skin is made up of series of scales that act up as an
outer skeleton for easy movement.
 Sharks have a good sense of smell that helps them smell
from miles a way.
 The upper side of a shark is generally dark to blend in
with the water above and undersides are white or lighter
surface of the sea below. There are more than 360 species
of sharks.
 Sand tiger sharks breath underwater, through their gills
but sand tiger sharks have one unique habit: they are the
only shark that comes to the surface to gulp air. This gulp
of air isn't for breathing, after the shark swallows the air
it makes the shark more buoyant.