1. Green Sea Turtle Scientific Name: Cheloia mydas

2. Classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Family: Cheloniidae
Genus: Chelonia
Species: C. mydas

3. Physical Environment
Adult sea turtles are mostly found in shallow, coastal waters, lagoons, bays, and estuaries.
Also some turtles venture in open sea.

4. Native Home/ Preferred Biome
Tropical and subtropical seas and the two distinct seas are the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

5. Predators
Sharks
People

6. Prey
Mostly various species of sea grass

7. Special/ Unique Abdaptations
They are cold blooded
They breath air
There skin has scales

8. Endangered Status
The Green Sea Turtle is endangered.

9. Interesting characteristics, qualities, or features
A Green Sea Turtles cruising speed is about 1.5 to 9.3 kph ( mph)
They have larger upper eyelids
There backs are about 78 to 112 cm long and they weigh about pounds
Sea turtles cant retract it’s head under it’s shell like a land turtle
They reproduce asextually

10. Other interesting facts
The largest Green Sea Turtle collected was 4.9 feet long and weighed 871 pounds.
The Green Sea Turtle gets it’s name from the color of it’s body fat.
In Hawaii they call the Green Sea Turtle Honu.

11. Countries you could find the Green Sea Turtle in.
Hawaii
Cost of Florida
The Pacific coast of Mexico