Sea Turtle Terms

Question 0

Artificial Lightning

Answer 0

Light created by human made things

Question 1

Arribada

Answer 1

refers to mass of nesting sea turtles

Question 2

Beach Renourishment

Answer 2

The addition of sand to a beach

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Body Pit

Answer 3

Part of a turtle nest where it removes sand before digging the egg chamber

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Brackish

Answer 4

somewhat salty water found in marshes, estuarys, and lagoons

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Carapace

Answer 5

the upper portion or dorsal of a turtles shell

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Carnivore

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an organism that only eats other animals

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Caruncle

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a temporary, sharp edged tooth on hatching used to tear open the shell

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Clutch

Answer 8

a nest of eggs

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Coastal Armoring

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anything built along a beach to protect structures from beach erosion

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Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species

Answer 10

agreement to control the international trade of endangered species

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Egg Chamber

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The part of a turtle nest where the eggs incubate

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Endangered Species

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An organism that is in danger of becoming extinct

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Erosion

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the removal of sand from a beach

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Extinct

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when all of a species die

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False Crawl

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when a turtle crawls onto a beach but does not nest

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Fibropapillomas

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a disease that causes tumors to grow on sea turtles

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Incubate

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process in which eggs develop into hatchlings

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Migration

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the act of moving from one place to another

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Natal Beach

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the beach where a sea turtle was born

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Nest

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the structure made for laying and incubating eggs

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Plastron

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the lower or ventral portion of a turtle shell

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Poach

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to hunt illegally

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Predator

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an organism that captures and eats other animals and their eggs

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Satellite Telemetry

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a thing that uses a radio transmitter to transmit signals to sattilites orbiting earth

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Scutes

Answer 25

the hard scales covering a turtles shell

Question 26

Turtle Excluder Device TED

Answer 26

a device on a fishing net that allows sea turtles to escape from it