Habitats
Life Cycle
Workup
Shell Composition
100

When does the life cycle of a sea turtle begin? 

What is After a female lays her eggs in the sand?

100

What is sargassum known as?

What is a weed line?

100

What happens when the sea turtles are brought on board?

What is kept in the cabin, under the shade and begun with data collection? 

100

Does every species have the same shell composition? 

What is no?

200

When do the hatchlings emerge?

What is 6-11 weeks?

200

When sea turtles swim during first 24 hours after hatching, what are they trying to do?

What is swim as far away from the coast as possible?

200
What type of samples are taken? 

What is fecal, tissue and scute samples?

200

How long does it take for the adhesives to dry once tagged? 

What is an hour?
300

How many eggs are typically in a nest? 

What is 100+?

300

How many turtles reach adulthood?

What is 1 in 10,000 turtles?

300

What is inserted into the flipper? 

What is a pit tag

300

What does a green sea turtle shell feel like?

What is waxy?

400

The biggest threat to small hatchlings on the nesting beach as they emerge are? 

What is crabs, raccoons, birds?

400
What does sargassum provide for sea turtles?
What is something to eat and protection from predators?
400
Once the workup is finished what is the next step?
What is the process of satellite tagging? 
400

What is the anatomical term for the top or dorsal part of a sea turtles shell

What is the carapace?

500

Where are the nests laid? 

What is the dune area?

500

When turtles are caught on the boat, what are they measured for?

What is width, length, head size and weight?

500

What does the stable isotope analysis collected tell us? 

What is where the turtles have been and what they might be eating?

500
What is the name for the bottom or ventral part of a sea turtles shell

What is the plastron? 

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