Marvellous marine turtles
Completion certificate
Congratulations on completing your marvellous marine turtles Tool Kit For Eco Heroes. You are now a marine turtle expert!
You can download your FREE certificate here, or just click on the picture and off you go!
Be sure to display your certificate proudly and wow your friends with the fascinating facts that you’ve learnt.
Just remember to keep saving our oceans.
Marine turtle quiz
Here are the answers to the marine turtle quiz
1. True: Marine turtles lived alongside the dinosaurs.
2. False: Marine turtles can hold their breath for as long as 2 hours when they are resting.
3. True: True, jelly fish are one of the Leatherback turtle’s main foods.
4. False: Very few marine turtles live to adulthood but when they do, they can reach between 50 and 100 years old.
5. False: Different species of marine turtles live in oceans all over the world apart from the Poles.
6. True: Scientists believe that Green turtles have their colour because of their diet. They are herbivores and eat eating mostly seagrasses and algae.
7. False: Amazingly, marine turtles use the Earth's magnetic field to navigate.
8. True: On average, sea turtles lay 110 eggs in a nest.
9. False: The Kemp’s Ridley is the smallest species of marine turtle and the Leatherback is the largest.
10. False: Unlike their land turtle relatives, sea turtles cannot retract their head and flippers into their shell.
Activities
Here are the answers for the activity cards
Turtle hunt
Beach trail
Turtle crossword
Across
1. NEST
6. KEMPS RIDLEY
7. NETS
8. LEATHERBACK
9. JELLYFISH
Down
2. SEVEN
3. PLASTIC
4. CARAPACE
5. REPTILE
Reef patrol
A bale of turtles
There are 40 turtles in the bale.
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