TURTLE

Turtle

Diet: Some turtles eat only plants and others eat animal and vegetable matter. Turtles don't have any teeth but they have sharp jaws on the side. That's how they chew their food.

Lifespan/Lifecycle: In captivity turtles can live up to 100 years! In wild life they can live up to 10 to 300 years depending on what kind of turtle it is.



Rizzo, Mary. __3toedboxturtle.jpg__. May 31, 2009. Pics4Learning. 28 Oct 2010 

A turtle will spend most of it's time in water. But it will also spend a little bit of it's time on land. Turtle's will also live in almost any climate warm enough to allow them to complete their breeding cycle. A turtle lives in large fresh water. Cauchy, Diane. __tinyturtle.jpg__. 2006. Pics4Learning. 28 Oct 2010 
 * Habitat**

A turtle's upper shell is commonly constructed of 50 bones. They also have an under shell. All living turtles are toothless and have no external ear openings. The edges of the jaws are covered with a hard, shared edged, horny sheath, which may be smooth or have tooth-like serrations. Color: brown and black Size: 10 to 30 pounds Number of legs: 4
 * Physical Characteristics**

__//**Behavior/ Special Skills:**//__ If you find a turtle, no matter what kind of turtle it is, it lays eggs.  Turtles bury their eggs in holes.  Turtles are very noisy when finding a mate.



http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=turtle12345.jpg __//**Predators/ Defense:**//__ People hunt turtles for food and their shell.  Turtles have a shell for defense.  And they have a strong jaw. Sometimes turtles hide in there shell because they don't want other predators to hurt them.

__Resources__: Gibbons, Whit. "Turtle (reptile)." //Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia//. 2010. Grolier Online. 7 Oct. 2010 .

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

Gibbons, Whit. "Turtle (reptile)." //Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.// Grolier Online, 2010. Web. 13 Oct. 2010.