Title: Great White Shark
1Great White Shark
By TR
2 Introduction
- The name of my animal is Great White Shark
- The scientific name is carchardon
- The shark is in the fish family
3Physical features
- Gray and white
- About 2 tons
- About 17 feet in long
- It has no hair
- The nose has scraps on it
- Its ears are practically on its tongue
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4Life span
- The lifespan of a great white shark is about 25
years - No the shark is not endangered
- The oldest shark in the world is about 30 years
old - It has babies when its 20
5Habitat
- The great white shark lives along every single
continent except for Antarctica - Mostly cold waters
- the arctic waters are too cold for them
- they would die in the freezing cold conditions
6Weather and climate
- when it snows the shark goes under the ice to
keep warm - when it rains the shark does its usual thing
- the temperatures are different in each continent
because they live every were - they like warm waters so they love the tropical
places
7Prey and PredatorThe only predator to a
shark is a human Their prey is mostly sealsif
people keep catching them there might not be any
sharks in the future
8Behavior
Great white sharks behavior is they go up to
their prey and startle them and then attack. It
does this to eat. They also behave by first
bringing their prey to where they live and then
attacking.
91. The great white shark usually has up
to 5 babies2. Only two survives because the
mom has nothing else to eat3. It has babies at
the age of 20, but dies at the age of 254. The
baby leaves at the age of two days old
Reproduction
10 Physical Adaptationsthe great white
shark adapts to its environment by
camouflagethey have blue backs because if your
looking down at the water you see bluethey have
white bottoms because if your looking up from the
bottom of the ocean it looks white
11Behavioralsharks usually sneak up to
their prey and attackwhen they see prey they
swim away but slow down when prey is out of
sightthey open there eyes wider when there is
more than 1 predatorthey try to cut there
predator first
12there are more then 350 kinds of
sharksharks live along every continent escaped
for Antarctica oceansome sharks are born from
eggs and some from there motherscientists do not
know how sharks matesome sharks live in lakes
and riversthey used shark teeth for knifes long
ago
Fun facts