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    risk of extinction. Plastic wastes are one of the main reasons for the death of sea turtles. whale hunters hunt whales and sharks are finned and caught in nets. Animals under the labeled endangered are whales, sharks, and sea turtles. The main causes for their population decrease are man-made. Topic sentence: Whales roam throughout all of the world’s oceans, communicating with complex and mysterious sounds.…

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    variation found within populations of Blanding’s Turtles may provide meaningful insights into biology, such as being able to understand both the importance and patterns of evolution and population genetics. Without genetic variation, a loss of heterozygosity would occur, which may result in the sustainability of undesirable genes, an absence of both gradual and adaptive evolution in response to a changing environment, and eventually, extinction. Blanding’s Turtles are found throughout the Great…

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    The Mock Turtle Soup

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    Afterwards, it is added slowly to a transparent, glass bowl “prepared with a turnip mousse, designed to resemble a mock turtle egg topped with delicate enoki mushrooms", leaving behind "the richest, pungent consommé with flecks of gold” as the consumer him/herself twirls and dissolves the gold fob watch(thecuriouspixie.co.uk). Instead of just exposing the consumer to the…

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    Loggerhead Research Paper

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    Caretta caretta, loggerhead sea turtles are one of the most abundant turtle species in the United States. The loggerhead lives in some of the most frigid waters, and typically live near the coast, frequenting North Carolina as well as Florida. These sea turtles have massive, log-like heads, and extremely strong jaws for munching on shellfish. Loggerheads are ominvores and typically masticate creatures such as horseshoe crab, mussels, clams, fish and jellyfish, while sometimes eating seaweed as…

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    I strongly believe that wildlife crossings for turtles and tortoises should be built more frequently on main roads. The reasons I believe this are that it is not only dangerous to the animals to not have these wildlife crossings but the driver as well, I will discuss these in more depth in this passage. One reason to have wildlife crossings is that is can be dangerous to the animals if you don’t have them. If you don’t put the tunnels or bridge then the animals have no way across the road…

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    1. Identify and discuss three reasons that endangerment occurss. One of the reasons that endangerment occur is habitat destruction. Habitat destruction has gone over to the top because mostly all the wild animals has really what to call a home. Man kind has wiped out their homes for our house,food markets and many more things that can provide us but not them. A second one would be illegal hunting. Illegal hunting had made many animals died because of this type of game. For putting them up as…

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    Painted Turtle Essay

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    is still possible to enrich your child's life (or even your own) with a pet. However instead of a hamster, why not invest in a Painted turtle. The Painted turtle, known as Chrysemys picta by the scientific community, is a reptile of beauty.There are four types (or sub-species) of painted turtle: Western, Midland, Eastern, and Southern. The Southern painted turtle is the only sub-species with a stripe down its back; the…

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    ferocious turtle. While on the island they quizzically wandered through the desert uncertain who was approaching them. The Robinsons had assumed they were Arabs unfortunately they turned out to be ostriches. They capture one with rope and took their eggs to tame…

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    I believe that classrooms need to be universally designed in order to best meet the needs of all learners. Teaching explicit learning strategies to students and using these strategies universally in the classroom are so very important to ensure success for all learners. Reflection is aspect of many macrostrategies (Marzano, 2007). As students reflect on their learning, they gain important assessment information about how they perceive the efficacy of their thinking (Costa & identify and…

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    them safe from predation. As the tail thrashes from side to side, the fish is capable of inflicting serious damage to an enemy. 4. Squirt and 5.Crush(Green Sea Turtle)6. Common name-Turtle The name green sEA TURTLES…

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