Sentences with phrase «about sea turtles»

More about sea turtles: Adopt a Sea Turtle!

Using a dictionary, the internet, or a reference book about sea turtles, students will look up the terms in the word bank and match each to its correct definition.

Have students, themselves, thumb through books about sea turtles if they are having trouble getting started.

Use the following free printables, to help your students learn these and other interesting facts about sea turtles.

Give students a few ideas by reading a book about sea turtles, watching a nature - themed DVD about the reptiles, or visiting the library before students tackle this work sheet.

Students can use this theme paper to write a story, poem, or essay about sea turtles.

Who could know more about sea turtles than the scientists of Sea World?

Endangered sea turtles are in need of our attention, and the Internet offers some great activities for learning about sea turtles — and even tracking their movements!

Sea Turtle.org All about sea turtles, including tracking their migration.

Crush has gone on to star in his own Disney World attraction, where he interacts with guests and teaches them about sea turtles.

Loggerhead Marinelife Center — Not only will you learn about Sea Turtles, but you can also see them up close and personal!

, here are some fun facts about sea turtles to share with your child:

Visit the turtle farm «Tortugranja,» located on Calle Zac Bajo near Playa Paraiso, where you can see various turtle species from the area and learn about sea turtle conservation efforts.

We did not know about the sea turtle nesting ground, just in front of the property, and that we would be able to watch the huge «arribadas» (arrival of the nesting turtles) right from our patio.

My Pace University filmmaking students saw this same dynamic when we made our 2013 film about sea turtle conservation efforts in a fishing town on the Pacific side of Mexico's Baja peninsula.

Not exact matches

Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summertime; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snowshoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.

We were off to the aquarium, and along the way we passed a beautiful beach on top of a cliff (complete with hammocks), the biggest sea turtles I'd ever seen (right under my feet) and several tanks of baby turtles dashing about like Squirt from Finding Nemo, a large lagoon full of snorkelers, and a little man - made beach off the lagoon where tiny tots paddled about.

To the North, you have the Sunshine Coast, with Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo (an hour north); Mon Repos Turtle Centre, where you can watch sea turtles nest and hatch, depending on the season; Fraser Island; and access to the Southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef from the Town of 1770 (About 6 hours north of Brisbane).

For their study, the researchers looked at three sets of fossils (now housed in museums in Denmark, England, and Texas) of widely disparate creatures from different eras: a leatherback turtle that lived about 55 million years ago, a large predator called a mosasaur that lived about 86 million years ago, and an ichthyosaur that swam the seas between 190 million and 196 million years ago.

Patrick Burchfield, director of the Gladys Porter Zoo and a key player in recovery efforts for Kemp's ridley sea turtles, says the company contacted him early in its site selection process to discuss concerns about the facility.

Although SpaceX has won praise from some wildlife managers for its plans to minimize negative effects, the launch facility is a worry for conservationists such as Carole Allen of the Sea Turtle Restoration Project, particularly about the Kemp's ridley turtle, which nests primarily in Texas and northern Mexico and nearly went extinct in the 1970s.

To learn more about the mysterious lives of sea turtles, researchers attached tiny satellite trackers to young turtles and set them free in the open ocean.

Smaller - scale translocations have been successful, Wibbels points out; Each year from 1978 until 1988, about 2000 Kemp's ridley sea turtle eggs were moved from the species» sole nesting beach in Rancho Nuevo, Mexico, to Padre Island National Seashore near Corpus Christi, Texas, in a bid to start a second nesting beach.

«We described a fossil sea turtle from Colombia that is about 25 million years older,» said Dr. Edwin Cadena, a scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation at the Senckenberg Research Institute.

Little is known about the oldest sea turtles that inhabited Earth millions of years ago.

It includes about 175,000 tissue samples from roughly 145,000 unique animals and more than 60,000 samples of DNA representing virtually every known species of marine mammal and sea turtle.

To make things even more complicated, in some species of sea turtles, their sexual anatomy is not physically apparent until about a decade or so when they approach sexual maturity.

Click any of the photographs for more information about the lives of frogfish, cleaning gobies, turtles, sharks, and many other sea creatures and be sure to check out the anatomy of the seahorse.

Then use this movement game to have children pretend to be tiny sea turtles who are about to hatch.

USE A DIAGRAM Read picture books about turtles, sea turtles, and tortoises.

Along the way, students learn about the many dangers that threaten the sea turtle and her young.

My students have enjoyed learning about and loving sea turtles.»

Students can begin learning about these fascinating reptiles using this sea turtle vocabulary sheet.

You might choose sea turtles, dinosaurs, horses or a scientist like Darwin, Einstein or Koch to learn about together.

We'll spread the word about your app as far and wide as the sea turtles swim!!

Today I learned about Georgia Aquarium's rescue and rehabilitation efforts for loggerhead sea turtles, and it's incredibly impressive.

Discover the park's diverse wildlife on a kayak expedition and a boat safari, and learn about local conservationists» efforts to protect the highly endangered green sea turtle.

How about snorkeling and swimming with large green sea turtles?

Sea Turtles and manta rays move about the shallow water of Franklin Bay.

Campers will learn about marine animals such as dolphins, whales, sharks, reef fish, sea turtles, and coral with the Project AWARE Kids program, hands - on activities, and arts & crafts.

The chances of seeing these magnificent creatures and other sea life, such as sea turtles, are about 95 %.

Scenic Highlights: One night in Santa Cruz with included visit to see the giant tortoises, three nights cruising through the Galápagos National Park aboard the Xavier, snorkelling excursions searching for sea turtles and rays, hiking through the lava fields of Bartolomé to get an amazing view, learn more about the ecology of the Galápagos with a visit to the Charles Darwin Research Station

For the avid ocean enthusiasts, sea turtle tours, ocean tours, kitesurfing, learning about sharks, fishing and much more is on the menu and Sodwana Bay will meet your highest expectations.

Location: north, northeast of Boracay Access: about 25 minutes by boat from White Beach Experience: advanced divers and technical divers Depth: up to 70 meters Visibility: 10 - 30 meters Current: strong Characteristics: 3 dive sites - Yapak I and Yapak II, two different reef walls begin at 30 meters and drop down to 70 meters at Yapak III, wide diversity of fish, tuna, barracuda, snapper, jacks, sharks, and manta rays have been seen, sea turtles, sea snakes, sponges, nudibranchs, corals

If you prefer, you could take a day trip to Costa Rica's most famous national park, the Manuel Antonio National Park, which is about 45 minutes away or you could visit the Playa Hermosa Wildlife Refuge, which protects the Olive Ridley sea turtles that come to nest here every year.

The island, which sits about eight miles off the Yucatan peninsula, is home to interesting sites, including Hacienda Mundaca, the ruined mansion of a 19th - century slave trader and some peaceful, sea - turtle frequented white - sand beaches.

Kirah Forman, one of Hol Chan Marine ReserveÂ's biologists, said: Â «Assisting sea turtles in distress is an important part of what the Ambergris Caye Marine Turtle Program is all about.

See — and learn about — the amazing undersea worlds of animals from around the globe, including penguins, turtles, walruses, beluga whales, and sea lions.

You can witness the spectacle with Mon Repos Turtle Encounters, who operate nighttime tours seven days a week, led by an environmental scientist who will teach you about the conservation programs and lifecycle of the majestic sea turtles.

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