The Great White Shark is the biggest shark that is known to be alive today. The average Great White can live up to 70 years old or more. Most Great Whites mature around the age of 15. Great White Sharks have a grey body on the tp yet on the bottom it is white for camouflage, they are grey on the top because it helps blend them into the water so that predators and prey can't see them, this is the same reason that they have a white belly. The Great White Shark has a snout, black eyes (They are very light sensitive so the black helps protect them), nostril, mouth, 5 gills, pectoral fin, pelvic fin, anal fin, caudal fin, first dorsal fin, second dorsal fin, and razor sharp teeth (Great Whites can't chew so they just have to rip off what they can.)
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Great White Sharks are consumers and they are mainly at the top of the food chain but they are killed and eaten by humans and killer whales. The Great White Sharks scientific name/ species name is the Carcharodon Carcharias. The Great White Shark is dominant depending on size and sex. Females are normally larger, so they are dominant to male Great Whites. Female Great Whites are normally pregnant for 12-18 months and they give birth to 3-14 5 foot long, live pups at a time. The pups are immediately left to fend for themselves. The Great White shark pups are in an egg, but the egg is hatched inside of the mother and the pups are kept inside of the mother to keep growing before they are birthed into the water. The classification system for the Great Whites is, Kingdom: Animalia, Phylum: Chordata, Class: Chondrichthyes, Subclass: Elasmobranchii, Suborder: Selachimorpha, Order:Lamniformes, Family: Lamnidae, Genus: Carcharodon, Species: C. …show more content…
The amount of sharks has been at an almost constant level, with little fluctuation. In some areas of the world there is a low level and in some parts of the world there is a high level but they are mainly stable. The biggest reason of low sharks is that that area is not very popular and therefore there will be a lower level of sharks. In areas with a higher population that is usually seasonal because most sharks migrate to different water temperatures and activity levels in that specific area. The Great White population could go way down or they could go extinct mainly because if mankind hunting them. There is a very popular trend in a lot of places and it started in china, which is the trend of shark fin soup. That is only one of the main reasons, the others are shark fin trading, and the value and popularity of great white's teeth. Ways that mankind could prevent the Great White Shark extinction, that is in our power is to make shark hunting, shark fin soup, shark fin trading, are illegal. As well as teeth extraction, trading and selling,
Great White Sharks are consumers and they are mainly at the top of the food chain but they are killed and eaten by humans and killer whales. The Great White Sharks scientific name/ species name is the Carcharodon Carcharias. The Great White Shark is dominant depending on size and sex. Females are normally larger, so they are dominant to male Great Whites. Female Great Whites are normally pregnant for 12-18 months and they give birth to 3-14 5 foot long, live pups at a time. The pups are immediately left to fend for themselves. The Great White shark pups are in an egg, but the egg is hatched inside of the mother and the pups are kept inside of the mother to keep growing before they are birthed into the water. The classification system for the Great Whites is, Kingdom: Animalia, Phylum: Chordata, Class: Chondrichthyes, Subclass: Elasmobranchii, Suborder: Selachimorpha, Order:Lamniformes, Family: Lamnidae, Genus: Carcharodon, Species: C. …show more content…
The amount of sharks has been at an almost constant level, with little fluctuation. In some areas of the world there is a low level and in some parts of the world there is a high level but they are mainly stable. The biggest reason of low sharks is that that area is not very popular and therefore there will be a lower level of sharks. In areas with a higher population that is usually seasonal because most sharks migrate to different water temperatures and activity levels in that specific area. The Great White population could go way down or they could go extinct mainly because if mankind hunting them. There is a very popular trend in a lot of places and it started in china, which is the trend of shark fin soup. That is only one of the main reasons, the others are shark fin trading, and the value and popularity of great white's teeth. Ways that mankind could prevent the Great White Shark extinction, that is in our power is to make shark hunting, shark fin soup, shark fin trading, are illegal. As well as teeth extraction, trading and selling,