Sea Turtle Terms Flashcards
Artificial Lightning
Light created by human made things
Arribada
refers to mass of nesting sea turtles
Beach Renourishment
The addition of sand to a beach
Body Pit
Part of a turtle nest where it removes sand before digging the egg chamber
Brackish
somewhat salty water found in marshes, estuarys, and lagoons
Carapace
the upper portion or dorsal of a turtles shell
Carnivore
an organism that only eats other animals
Caruncle
a temporary, sharp edged tooth on hatching used to tear open the shell
Clutch
a nest of eggs
Coastal Armoring
anything built along a beach to protect structures from beach erosion
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
agreement to control the international trade of endangered species
Egg Chamber
The part of a turtle nest where the eggs incubate
Endangered Species
An organism that is in danger of becoming extinct
Erosion
the removal of sand from a beach
Extinct
when all of a species die
False Crawl
when a turtle crawls onto a beach but does not nest
Fibropapillomas
a disease that causes tumors to grow on sea turtles
Incubate
process in which eggs develop into hatchlings
Migration
the act of moving from one place to another
Natal Beach
the beach where a sea turtle was born
Nest
the structure made for laying and incubating eggs
Plastron
the lower or ventral portion of a turtle shell
Poach
to hunt illegally
Predator
an organism that captures and eats other animals and their eggs
Satellite Telemetry
a thing that uses a radio transmitter to transmit signals to sattilites orbiting earth
Scutes
the hard scales covering a turtles shell
Turtle Excluder Device TED
a device on a fishing net that allows sea turtles to escape from it
