By: Jordan Dieringer

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I am The Great white Shark

• By Jordan Dieringer Dontrell Smith

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My NAme

• Im the Great White Shark
• Scientists call me Carcharodon Carcharias
• The genus name Carcharodon is derived from the
  Greek karcharos sharpen and odous teeth.
  The species name carcharias, also translated from
  Greek, means point or type of shark, leading to
  its common name in Australia of the white
  pointer.

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My Physical Traits

• I have a rounded body that looks like a torpedo
  with fins.
• I am grey, blue, and brown on the top and white
  on the bottom.
• I can have up to 300 teeth in many rows.
• I am the only species of shark that stick there
  heads out of water, but nobody knows why.
• I can grow up to 20 feet long, and can weigh more
  than 5,000 lbs.

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My Predators

• I am enemies with humans, because they try to
  hunt my kind for our meat, leather, shark fin
  soup, and teeth necklaces.
• I am also dont get along with humpback whales,
  we have been enemies for many years.
• One of my worst enemies are dolphins because when
  I try to attack a dolphin they travel in packs so
  sometimes its like I'm being hunted.
• Sometimes I even get attacked by my own kind.

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My diet and food

• I am a carnivore.
• I dont have much of a diet I will eat pretty
  much any meat.
• But I eat a lot of are fish, dolphins, sea
  otters, and other sharks

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My Reproduction

• People really dont know much about how my kind
  reproduces.
• We are known as adult sharks when we reach the
  age of 15.
• Many investigators used to believe that my kind
  didnt live for more than 30 years, but later
  they had found that some of my kind can live up
  to 70 years or more.
• Many have tried to study the birth of my kind,
  but no births have ever been caught on camera.
• We are ovoviviparous, which means we lay eggs
  that develop and hatch.

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Where I'm found and Where I migrate

• I am found in almost all coastal and offshore
  waters.
• Where I am research the most is in Dyer Island,
  South Africa.
• When I migrate, I go to a place between Baja
  California and Hawaii Known as the White shark
  café.
• I will stay at the café for 100 days before I
  migrate back to Baja.

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How I protect myself

• Most of the time I can out smart my attackers,
  because I have a highly developed brain.
• I also swim to the bottom of the ocean, with my
  dark skin I can use it as a camouflage.
• My best senses are my sight, smell and hearing,
  to help get away from attackers but also to help
  me get a meal.
• The way I defend myself is by using powerful body
  slams and vicious bites.
• My main goal in battle is to tear my attacker
  apart, for me the best defense is a great
  offense.

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I am endangered

• I am endangered, because there are many men
  always trying to hunt me down.
• My kind is more endangered then tigers, we were
  also put on the vulnerable list by the world
  conservation union.
• My population have dropped at a rapid speed,
  there are now only 3500 of us individuals.

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Cool facts about me

• At 20ft long I have over 4,000lbs of bite force.
• I am one of the smartest creatures in the ocean.
• I am the largest predatory fish in the world.
• I can swim up to 15mph.
• I dont chew on my food I swallow whole chunks.

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My adaptations body layout
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My main adaptations for survival

• Size- I am one the biggest creatures in the
  ocean, that means I can use my size to my
  advantage.
• Color- I come in a few different colors, but
  most of the colors in come in are dark so I can
  use that to blend in with the deep ocean waters.
• Skin- I have very thick skin, which helps me in
  battle.
• Jaws- I have very powerful jaws, that can put
  down a lot of bite force.
• Teeth- I have many of very sharp teeth in many
  rows, which helps me tear apart my prey and my
  attackers.

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