Marine life

1
Marine life!!

• ByXimena

2
What is Adaptation?

• Adaptation is when somebody gets used to
  something. Like an animal that lived in land but
  they now have adapted to water because there
  wasnt any food. There is adaptations all over
  the world like technology, behavior, and
  physical. You can find adaptations everywhere.
  That is what adaptation means.

3
Manatees

• General Info
• Environment
• Adaptation I
• Adaptation II

4
General Info

• Large marine animals
• Wrinkled grayish brown skin
• Can grow up to 13 feet
• Weigh up to 3000 pounds
• Called sea cows or manatees

5
Environment

• Lives in the sea but it is not a fish
• Manatees nevers leave the shalow water, its
  close to the shore because there he haslots of
  foods
• Live in crystal river of Florida
• Also in Belize of warm waters. They have been
  protected by Belize 70 years.

6
Adaptation I

• Have physiological adaptations during dive. It
  does not let conserve oxygen underwater.
• Like other mammals have slow heartbeat
• While they are sleeping they can stay underwater
  for 20 min
• If they are awake just for 2 to 3 minutes in water

7
Adaptation II

• Very agile and manuever underwater
• The manatees when they breath 90 is new air
  and of people is 10
• Their tale is like the beavers because they can
  move better.
• On the Bigone scientist thought that about 3
  million years ago life began in the sea. Then
  half billion years ago manatees left water to
  live in land. 45 million years ago manatees whet
  back to the water.

8
Narwhal

• General Info
• Environment
• Adaptation I
• Adaptation II

9
General Info

• Has a medium size
• Toothed whale
• Blubber under skin and no fin under eyes.
• The entire life is in the Arctic

10
Environment

• They do not get to there because they can get
  killed
• Narwahls are valued for their lusks for the past
  years
• Important to Eskimo cultures
• Meat is primarily for sleddogs and skin is very
  mportant source of vitamin C

11
Adaptation I

• Deep water cetacean condive until 1,200 ft
• 4 of blubber under its skin for protection in
  ice water
• No dorsal back fin but they have uneven ridge.
• 1,000 narwhals killed a year between Canda and
  Greenland.

12
Adaptation II

• Like penguins narwhals are on top black and
  inside white
• Has flukes, they are fan shapes
• They ate in the Artic ocean beacuse there is good
  food for them and no body goes there.
• During migration 1,000 in groups but usually seen
  in groups of 20-30.

13
Porpoises/Phocaena

• General Info
• Environment
• Adaptation I
• Adaptation II

14
General Info

• Its color is dark brown or dark gray, gray
  pacthon the slides. Flippers are also dark and
  has a stripe from flipper to eye.
• Small flippers, oval in shape and rounded at
  tips.
• Females can have babies when they are 3 to 4
  years old.
• It is small size round and slocky.

15
Environment

• They live in the northern hemosphere.
• They are frequently hunted that is why they get
  near to boats or bow rides.
• May be found in beyond in large rivers.
• They also can be find North Pacific ,and Black
  Sea in water less than 60 degrees F(15 degrees C).

16
Adaptations I

• They are adapted to go find food in groups of 6
  to 10.
• They are found in bays and big rivers.
• Small flippers make them swim faster.
• The female are larger than male.

17
Adaptations II

• Do not leave next to shores because they can get
  trapped.
• Many propoises died in captivity.
• They can not leave their habitat.

18
Sea Otter

• General Info
• Environment
• Adaptations I
• Adaptations II

19
General Info

• Brown to black hair
• Lives hwere its 50-75 feet deep
• 650,000 hairs per aquare inchy
• Sea Oteer spend 48 daylight time combing his
  hair
• 100 mammal
• They are carnivores

20
Environment

• Lives in Coast of Central California
• Also in North Pacific ocena, North America,
  Alsaka and California,etc.
• People killed Sea Otters before.
• Eats fish, forgs, sankes and other small water
  creatures.

21
Adaptations I

• Specuial muscles that make their ears close to
  keep water out
• The ehidn fee form large flippers to swim
• Otters whiskers help him find food
• Coarse hairs protect thick underfur to keep the
  skin dry and they can float better.

22
Adaptation II

• Lungs are larger than in other animals
• Like the Narwhals that have to go the bottom of
  the ocean to find food.
• They live in water that s is deep but not that
  deep.

23
Sources Net

• InfobitsPorpoise
• Infobits Otters made for water
• Sea Otter doing swimmingly
• California Sea Otters
• Infobits Manatees
• Exploring the mantees
• Adaptations for aquatic Environment
• AOL_at_school Harbor Porpoise
• AOL_at_scholNarwhals

24
Source Books

• Sea OttersMarianne Riedman
• Manatees Kathy Darlyng