Whale Shark

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Whale Shark

• Braden
  
• Ms. Heimbueger
• October 17, 2008

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Table of Contents

• Poem
• Description
• Habitat/region
• Food and prey
• Life cycle
• Interesting facts
• Conclusion
• References

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Poem

• Whale shark grow up to 46 feet long.
• Their Huge mouth can grow 4 feet long
• The Amount of plankton to eat through its gills
• The Largest fish in the world
• The whale shark eats an Enormous amount of
  plankton
• Skin is up to 4 inches thick
• However found in the Mediterranean Sea
• Average size is 25 feet
• Resting on the Sea Floor
• And eats Krill, small fish, and squid

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Description

• Whale shark is a filter feeder.A whale shark has
  about 3,000 teeth.A whale shark grows about 46
  feet 14m.A female is bigger than a male.

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Habitat/Region

• Whale sharks live all around the world but only
  in warm water. Sometimes they live near North
  Carolina. The only place it wont go is
  Antarctica because the water is too cold. It
  lives in all the oceans in the world. And they
  live near the equator. They spend most of their
  time near the surface.

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Food and/or Prey

• Great White Sharks eat whale sharks plankton
  krill, small fish, and quid, garbage.

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Interesting Facts

• A whale sharks mouth is four feet wide. The
  whale shark is a filter feeder which means it
  sucks in the food.The whale shark has 3,000 very
  tiny teeth.It only lives in warm water.It eats
  through its gills.It is the largest fish in the
  world.It might take 2,500 people to cover the
  whale shark.

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Life Cycle

• The mom lays the eggs then she leaves her baby
  to grow.

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Conclusion

• I leaned that the whale shark filter feeds. It
  weighs fifteen tons. Scuba divers can swim with a
  whale sharks. It does not like much food. It only
  swims in warm water. It spends most of the time
  near the surface going 5mph. Females are bigger
  than males!

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References

• TitleThe Whale Shark
• AuthorSarah Palmer 1988 Rourke Enterprises Inc
• Inernethttp//www.enchantedlearning.com