Great White Sharks
By James D’Alessandro
Table of Contents
Physical Characteristics - Page 2-3
Food - Page 4
Habitat - Page 5
Pups - Page 6
Fun Facts - Page 7
Glossary - Page 8
About the Author - Page 9
Bibliography - Page 10
Physical Characteristics
Great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) are very fascinating creatures. Did you know their skeleton is completely made of cartilage? Great whites have a blue-grey dorsal which helps them blend in with the ocean when being viewed. They also have a white belly which makes it difficult to view them from below because of the blinding sunlight from above. Can you believe that great whites average 15 feet in length and can weigh up to 5,000 pounds? They have
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They are commonly found along the coasts of South Africa, Australia, California, and northeastern United States. They are found in less numbers around Brazil, the Azores, the Caribbean, eastern Africa, northwestern Africa, Madagascar, the Seychelles, Mauritius, northern Australia, Sri Lanka, New Caledonia, the Philippines, and Hawaii. Great whites can swim as deep as 820 feet. Did you know that great whites can’t sleep? They have to have water pass through their gills slits, so they slow down to rest while swimming.
Most great white sharks live at the areas colored in red.
Pups
Female great whites give birth to baby great whites called pups. They give birth to 1-10 pups at a time. Pups average 5 feet in length when born. The female’s eggs hatch inside her. The newly hatched pups (great whites) feed on the unfertilized eggs inside the womb. Believe it or not, once the pup is born, it is able to take care of itself. It immediately swims away from its mother and lives its own life. Great whites can live up to 70 years of age.
Fun Facts
Great white sharks live on the coasts of all the continents except Antarctica.
Great white sharks often have scratches and scars on their snouts.
Great white sharks are capable of rolling their eyes back.
Great white sharks attack around 5-10 humans each year.
Great white sharks can smell one drop of blood in 100 liters of waters.
The heaviest great white shark ever recorded in the wild was
They also prey on smaller fish such as skates, eels, herring, and cod. On occasion remains of larger mammals such as seals, moose, polar bears, and reindeer have been found in their stomachs. Its even speculated that these sharks ambush seals, with their ice holes being like beacons. Female Greenland sharks are ovoviviparous, meaning that they retain the developing embryo inside of their bodies to hatch instead of depositing it into the mud. While the gestation period is unknown there are usually 10 pups per litter that are about 90 centimeters
Also hey are very unique and interesting. They can get up to 15ft long. Next blue sharks like to move around so they don’t stay in one spot for long. At last watching the movie jaws made people have many opinions that are oncel sharks. People find sharks very threatening but they are just like us.
The problem, or debate, that I have chosen for my final project is the return of White Sharks to the Atlantic coast, specifically off of Eastern Massachusetts. Because it is more of a debate, there are both positives and negatives to this. These pertain to environment and ocean wildlife, public safety, ecotourism, conservation, and research.
The Discovery Channel has taught us that Great White Sharks are the largest predatory fish in the sea, and can eat something as big as a sea lion WHOLE. The biggest one was caught in 1993 off Prince Edward Island and was 20
One species incorporated the xenacanth sharks. They seem to have avoided extermination by relocating into freshwater. One group, Xenacanthus, was a seventy five centimeters in length, eel-like shark that looked like a modern conger eel. Its dorsal fin extended along its back and around the tail and connected to an odd double anal fin. The main striking feature was a single self-protective spine growing from the top of its head.
Great whites can grow up to twenty-four feet and weigh five thousand pounds(Martin). They are the biggest extant predatory fish. They are not the
This article talks about what sharks does in order to survive and what are they capable of doing. According to the article, sharks do not sleep; but rather, they have rest periods throughout their day. Sharks are capable of hearing anything below 1000 Hertz and can also swim up to 20 mph. Sharks skeleton is made up of cartilage rather than bone. According to the article, cartilages are lighter than bones. What keep them from floating are their large livers. Sharks can gather and keep the air into their stomach to keep them from floating.
1. In your own words explain the demerit point system and give 10 infractions and how many demerit points it will cost the driver for each.
Narwhals are a very ugly color. They’re a pale-blue with spots and babies are brown with no spots. The babies, when they're born, can be 5ft long and weigh 175 to 220 lbs. The males are 13 to 20ft long and weigh 3,500lbs, also the females are 11.5ft and weigh 2,200lbs. Narwhals make dolphin noises; like whistling, clicking, and trilling. They are graceful animals.
Blacktip Reef sharks can be located at warm places (59F to 75F) such as, the coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific and eastern Mediterranean, where they keep themselves mostly in the shallow warm waters and where they remain near their food supply. Some locations in where
The shark reproduces in a fascinating way.First it has a small litter of pups (2 - 4) then the pups eat the unfertilized eggs.They also deplete or use up their yolk sac in the womb.(Thresher sharks are slow
Great white sharks are extraordinary creatures. They have a massive diet, and their habitat can range from the surface of the water to 800 feet down and possibly more. These massive sharks can be mysterious in their own ways.
he great white shark has many different adaptations. Adaptations are physical and mental changes for survival over time. National Geographic explain that The Great White shark is one of the largest predators on earth they grow to an average of 15 feet length to even 20 feet and weighing up to 5,000 pounds. They have slate-gray upper bodies to blend in with the rocky seafloor and like all sharks the Great white has a white underbelly to match the sky. This Shark can go completely above water to attack prey. In addition, it has up to 300 strong triangular teeth and the tail can get them through water at the speed of 15 miles per hour.
The blacktip sharks can live worldwide in different oceans. Unlike a great white shark that like to live in cooler water or unlike a greenland shark that lives only in greenland, a blacktip sharks lives Atlantic ocean,Indian ocean,and both Western and Eastern Pacific. Because of living in different places fishers catch blacktip shark for their fins to sell with a high piece. It is a con and pro for the blacktip sharks to live worldwide
These apex predators fall under the classification class Chondrichthyes, which is comprised of cartilaginous skeleton. Chondrichthyes is sub-divided into two classes; the Elasmobranchii, composed of sharks, skates and rays, and the Holocephali (“Shark Taxonomy” 8). As we move further down the scientific classification, identifying these similar looking creatures become more difficult. Their order is separated into two super-orders, which are the extinct Cladoselachimorph and the Euselachii; composed of 12 orders of which only nine are amongst us today (9). Many scientists believe that sharks descended from an eyeless, finless, and boneless leaf shaped fish and that they came to existence at around 400 million years ago (“Shark Evolution” 1). Documented fossil records show that there were over 3,000 types of sharks and may have existed at the same period of time (Jones, “The Epic History of Sharks”). The reason it is difficult to discover them all is due to the rotting of the cartilaginous bone structure (“Shark