Amazing Adaptations Quiz

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Key Vocabulary Terms

Review these key terms from Loggerhead Marinelife Center's Virtual Coastal Classroom Lesson to help you find the answers and unlock our favorite photos and gifs of Fortin!

Adaptation: a heritable physical or behavioral trait that serves a specific function and improves an organism's ability to survive

Arribada: the synchronized, large-scale nesting of some species of sea turtle (such as the Kemp’s ridley and olive ridley)

Beak: any of various rigid projecting mouth structures (as of a turtle)

Carapace: a bony plate covering the back or part of the back of an animal (such as a turtle or crab)

Countershading: cryptic coloration of an animal with parts normally in shadow being light and parts normally illuminated being dark thereby reducing shadows and contours

Habitat: the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows

Laceration: a cut in the skin

Plastron: the ventral part (underside) of the shell of a tortoise or turtle consisting typically of nine symmetrically placed bones

Prey: an animal taken by another animal as food

Rehabilitation: restoration especially by therapeutic means to an improved condition of physical function

Scute: an external bony or horny plate or large scale

Species: a class of individuals having common attributes and designated by a common name
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What species of sea turtle is Fortin?
Green sea turtle
Loggerhead sea turtle
Leatherback sea turtle
Kemp's Ridley sea turtle
Hawksbill sea turtle
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Fortin is a Kemp's Ridley sea turtle! The species Kemp's ridley is named after Richard Kemp, a fisherman interested in natural history and submitted the original type specimen from Key West, Florida. (Image credit: Loggerhead Marinelife Center)
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Why do the Kemp's ridley sea turtles have a hooked beaks?
To fight off predators
To attract a mate
To help them eat their prey
To look dangerous
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To help eat their prey!Kemp's ridley sea turtles have a hooked beak to help puncture hard shells of their favorite foods, such as crabs, lobsters and other invertebrate animals (Image credit: Loggerhead Marinelife Center)
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How is the Kemp's ridley sea turtle naturally camouflaged?
They have a darker carapace to blend with shadows of deeper waters and a lighter plastron to blend with light from surface waters
A light gray, sandy-colored carapace to blend in with sand while nesting during the day
All of the above
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All of the Above!The Kemp's ridley sea turtle is lighter in color than most sea turtle species and is harder for a predator to spot during the day. Their plastron is even lighter in color to reduce their contours underwater. These contour-reducing color pattern is called countershading. (Image credit: Adrienne McCracken)
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Why is Fortin in the Sea Turtle Hospital at Loggerhead Marinelife Center?
Fortin was entangled in fishing line
Fortin has an unknown injury to its carapace (shell)
Fortin was unintentionally struck by a boat propeller
Fortin ate discarded trash in the ocean
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Fortin has an unknown injury on its carapace and arrived at Loggerhead Marinelife Center on February 23, 2020While fishing line entanglement, boat propeller wounds and ocean trash all affect marine animals, we do not know for certain what caused Fortin's injury. Hit Next to find out how we treat this type of injury!
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Fortin receives cold laser therapy once a day. Draw a circle around the red light on the image. Cold laser therapy is a treatment used to stimulate tissue for faster healing near a laceration
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