Sea

Creatures

Watercolor and colored pencils

By 5th graders

Mrs. Bolton’s and Mr. Wells’ classes Stony Point Elementary School April 2015

Sea Creature Project

Our sea creature projects were a long and hard process. We started out with finding an interesting that we wanted to learn more about. Then, we took some small notes and a sketch of the animal. After that, we did a more detailed sketch. Our class drew a final drawing on a piece of strong art paper. We painted the paper blue and put salt on it to make it look like the ocean. Soon after that, we took colored pencils and made our have color. We had to do it in layers, so that they would look bold. After the coloring, our class took more detailed notes and divided them into headings. We went to Word and put the notes onto pages. We made covers, put in pictures, and other cool pages. When we were all done, we used the color printer to print them. And that is how we made our sea creature books! Hope you like them.

“I decided to do a narwhal because they’re awesome. First, I researched it and sorted it on cards. Then I typed it up and put pictures to make my pages interesting.”

Lionfish By AustinBy Austin

Venom needle fins Look out, don’t get close to oneclose one They have lightning fast reflexes

Red and white zebra stripes turkeyfish, dragonfish worldwide, 15 inches long

Grouper

Large mouth, small teeth Special teeth to handle prey Eats everything that comes to it

Lives on rocky sea beds Over-fished by people Tasty to eat ‘cause they have a bunch of meat

By Amontae McCoy

Spotted Dolphin By Alexis Waldemar

Babies have no spots When age 4, they get their spots They leave mom when they are 5

They eat fish and squid They live in tropical water They have lots of pointed teeth

SPERM WHALE

Sperm whales are awesome they have a gigantic brain in the good book Moby Dick

tail hangs floppily lives at surface of ocean eats giant squid for dinner

-Ben

SPERM WHALE

HABITAT The sperm whale (physeter macrocephalus) can be found in any ocean, cold or warm water.

FOOD CHAIN Giant squid is 80% of the sperm whale’s diet. The rest is octopus, shrimp, fish, crab and other creatures. It can be dangerous for whales to get its food because the squid fight back. The sperm whales’ only predator, besides humans, is orcas that will attack weak adults and babies.

INTERESTING FACTS 1. Sperm whales have the largest brain of any animal in existence (5 times the size of a human’s). 2. Sperm whales are the largest toothed mammal. 3. They live to be about 60 years old. 4. Adult males live alone, and women and calves live together. 5. Adults can eat up to a ton (2,000 lbs.) of food per day.

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS The head of a sperm whale is squared, with a small jaw. The head is large and is ⅓ of its body length. They have one blow hole on the left side of their head. This blow hole projects forward instead of up.

BEHAVIORAL CHARACTERISTICS Sperm whales do a low blow as they come up to the surface of the ocean. They spend most of their time at the surface. When they come up only their head comes up and their tail hangs floppily down. Sometimes two or more groups of sperm whales combine to make a group of twenty to thirty sperm whales. Female sperm whales spend most of their time at the surface, and twenty five percent of their time sleeping. All of this is done in the day time.

Manta Ray by Carter

Flying through water

Floating plankton in my mouth

Swimming in a

Black and white colors

No stinger on tip of tail Two black and white wings to swim o

Manta rays are the biggest rays. They can grow up to 25 feet long! That’s more than half the length of a school bus! They have two types of fins; the cephalic fins that are stuck to their faces, and the pectoral fins that they use to move and steer. Male mantas are bigger than female mantas.

Two types of fins, pectoral and cephalic

Pectoral are for swimming

MANTA RAY cephalic are the things Anatomy stuck to their face

WHOA! That’s a big ray.

Manta rays are no doubt, BIG FISH. They can grow up to 25 feet long and weigh 3000 pounds. cephalic fins Cephalic fins are not just fins stuck to a face of a Manta Ray, they have a use.

Feeding

The cephalic fins help with feeding by filtering plankton out from the water.

Giant Squid By Case Norford

A dull red color Eats smaller squids and small sharks Lives in cold arctic waters

Weighs about a ton Longer than colossal As long as a semi-truck

WHAT DID THE GIANT SQUID SAY TO THE NEWSCASTER? WHAT? YOU’RE SQUIDDIN ME RIGHT

KNOCK KNOCK WHO’S THERE? GIANT GIANT WHO GIANT SQUID! HELP BOLT THE DOOR!!

WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU CROSS A SQUID AND A DOG? WHAT? A VERY FRIGHTENED MAILMAN!

Giant squids grow up in places that are safe. Most live in Arctic waters. Their only predators are deep sea sharks. Giant squids have been spotted off the coast of New Zealand. Giant squids live in the midnight zone.

Green Sea Turtle

Gliding through water Eating sea grass and algae Migrating long distances Cute little hatchlings

Scurrying to the ocean Returning to where they hatched Amazing Green Sea Turtles

By Charlotte

Do I see a shark?!!

Green Sea Turtles live in tropical and subtropical areas.

These turtles are slow, even in water.

Green Sea Turtles are the largest hard shelled turtles.

Sea Turtle Jokes

What did the Green Sea Turtle say to the Sea Grass?

Pleased to eat you!

Predators

Adult Green Sea Turtles only predators are sharks, because they are big and have hard shells.

Baby Green Sea Turtles are a different story. They’re small, and their shells are soft. At hatching time, there are thousands scurrying to the ocean. Crabs, raccoons, and seabirds all get an easy meal.

Food

Green Sea Turtles eat sea grass and algae

FUN FACT

Green Sea Turtles are one of the only vegetarian turtles.

GREAT WHITE SHARK

GREAT WHITE SHARK SEA KING SWIMMING THROUGH THE OCEAN FAST SHARP TEETH SWIFTLY MOVING CLOSE

EATING FISH IS MEAL MOVING ABOUT WATER GRAY GRAY, HUNGRY, PREDATOR, SHARK

BY: CHRIS

SEA SNAKESSEA SNAKES

Glares in the light of a summer night, Traps its prey with a venomous bite, Glides through the water with its prey in its mouth, It’s a feast without a doubt.

by Grayson Mitchell

Sea snakes eat eels, , fish, and . They drink the water off the top of the ocean.

Sea snakes are also called coral reef snakes. There are over 50 species of sea snakes. One of these is hydrophiinae. Sea snakes may swim up rivers. They have been seen 160 kilometers (99 mi.) from the sea.

Orca

Orcas are awesome killer whales are cetaceans they are as big as a bus

They are black and white they live in polar regions orcas weigh up to 6 tons

By: Hayleigh Moneymaker

Clownfish Sedoka

None in Atlantic I am born male dies female Eaten by shark larger fish

Side fins help them steer Covered in slime and mucus Fecal provides nutrients

By: Kaitlyn Craddock

NUDIBRANCH

Very Colorful sandy shallows and the reefs feed on and algae

move around a lot enormous amounts of food some can even swim away

By Kasia Buyaki

There are two things a nudibranch likes to do-

1. Move around alot

2. Eat enormous amounts of food

If they are disturbed some can even swim away.

These creatures have complex sense organs which are able to detect their food. This nudibranch feeds on sponges, algae, and anemones. They eat enormous amounts of spicy foods without paying the consequences.

You can find these nudibranchs almost anywhere. When you snorkel, you may see them in the sandy shallows and reefs. They go all the way down to the murky waters of 1 mile down.

These nudibranchs are cute, but did you know some physical characteristics of this creature? They’re snails without a shell, so like a slug. They crawl on their belly flesh, it might sound gross. It also has a rasp-like tongue.

Whale shark

Whale sharks are awesome Biggest fish on the planet Live in warm temperate seas

Weigh twenty five tons Up to forty feet in length They have three thousand small teeth

-Lach

NarwhalNarwhal

By: Lucas Garrett

Glide through the water The unicorn of the sea

Clicking and swimming they go

They like cold water Holes in the ice help them breathe They are as big as a bus

Blue-ringed Octopus

really cool creatures all over the world today but if you don’t see them then but my favorite you’re about to be sea creature is the blue ringed in for a surprise trip to octopus, because the old hospital it is very colorful eating crabs is their very and when you see blue favorite snack flashing lights in the water and you will it is a warning be a good snack too

by Luke

LONGHORN COWFISH

Have deadly toxins Are yellow and have white spots Can be 20 inches long

Are bottom feeders No known actual gender Very territorial

By Madalynn Roberson

Hammerhead Shark

Longest 20 feet Eyes on side of hammer head They live in the Atlantic

They are carnivores Name from the shape of their head Use their head as a weapon

By Mekhi Brown

MANDARIN FISH

NEED SPECIFIC FOOD GLIDING THROUGH THE CORAL REEF I LIVE IN THE PACIFIC

CAREFUL AROUND ME MULTIPLE COLORS ON ME BRIGHT LINES BACK AND FORTH

Written by: Melani Burkhart MANDARIN FISH Did you know that the mandarin fish is one of the most breath- taking fish ever found? HABITAT The mandarin fish is native to the Pacific Ocean. You can usually find them at the bottom of the ocean floor. Normally they are found inhabiting broken coral rubble beds or under dead coral.

BEHAVIORAL CHARACTERISTICS Mandarin fish are usually very shy. They are so shy that any heavy breathing or movement will scare them away back to their shelters. They are slow moving fish that live in caves and rocks on the seabed.

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS They have a broad depressed head and are primarily blue with orange, red, and yellow wavy lines. Mandarin fish are small, reaching a maximum length of 6 cm.

DIET Mandarin fish are carnivores. Mandarin fish feed on the bottom.

INTERESTING FACTS 1. Mandarin fish have a mucus coating instead of scales 2. Mandarin fish are very shy 3. Mandarin fish live at the ocean floor 4. Mandarin fish eat a specific diet 5. It is very hard to keep a mandarin fish for a pet

Glossary carnivore- an animal or plant that eats meat distinctive- characteristic of one person or thing, and distinguishes it from others dorsal- upper side or back of an animal, plant, or organ inhabiting- to live or dwell in (a place) native- born in a particular place specific- an exact thing temperature- the degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object

Ribbon Eel

Colorful and long Eats fish like a maniac Hides from animals quickly

Lives in coral reef Lives in shallow sea waters Lays as flat as a ribbon

by Michael

Bottlenose Dolphin

Make the loudest sounds They jump and play in the waves They swim in a circle and eat fish and squid They breathe and throw water through the hole in their head They can live to forty or fifty years Bottle nose

By Nichel

SWORDFISHSWORDFISH

By Nikki Lewis

Swimming through the sea Fifty miles per hour Eats daily for speed

Large eyes and no teeth Grows to be 14 feet long They’re silver, gray-blue and brown

They don’t swim in groups Predators are killer whales A fast fish in the ocean

SwordfishSwordfishSwordfish

Swordfish swim throughout the oceans. They mostly live in the Indian, Atlantic, and the Pacific Oceans. The swordfish PREFER WARMER WATERS. Swordfish swim IN VARYING DEPTHS IN THE OCEAN. You may see them on the surface of the ocean when they jump out of the ocean doing an activity called breaching. Swordfish swim in a variety of temperatures. If you go to one of the three oceans I listed, Watch Out! They might swim past you. When you look at a picture of a swordfish, you may not realize some interesting characteristics. They can grow to be 14 ft long. That’s about as long as my dad’s truck! They can weigh 1,400 pounds. Swordfish have large eyes and no teeth. As they glide through the water, you may notice silver, gray, blue, and brown. They can swim up to 50 miles per hour. Watch out when you go scuba diving!! Swordfish are big, so they need to eat a lot to stay healthy and alive. They eat blue fish, mackerel, hake, herring, squid, octopi, large tuna fish, cephalopods, and pelagic fish. When they eat a small fish, they swallow it whole. When they decide they want to feast on a big fish, they attack it by slashing at it, then they eat it. Swordfish are carnivores, which means they eat only meat. Take a picture, admire it. But within reason, don’t touch it. It’s wild.

Sea Squirts

Different Colors Also Known As Sea Grapes They Weight 3.5 Ounces

We Live In Clumps 3,000 Sea Squirt Species Some Live Up To 30 Years

Paige White

Pufferfish

Pufferfish are cool It puffs up when in danger Eats a lot of kinds of food

Warm water, coral reef Near Pacific, Atlantic Shellfish, clams, and crustaceans ERIK LONG

Star fishStar fish

Star fish enjoy clams I am an I can have up to ten arms

I live in salt water My skin is bumpy and hard I am found in all oceans

By Sherlin Ortega ☺

STAR FISH

Did you know? That there are about 2,000 starfish in the world. And there are starfish that have 10 and even up to 20 & 40 arms!



Have you ever wondered what starfish eat?

Well, today I’ll tell you, they eat clams, carrion, sea water, and dead fish.

Have you guys ever wondered where star fish live? You think in the sea, yes they live in the sea but where in the sea? Well, star fish can live in the intertidal zone, deep water, and some in even tropical areas, some in cold water and that’s it.



Blue Spotted Stingray By: Sofie Early

Blue dots everywhere Deadly spikes enough to kill Has an olive green color

Floating free on floor Has to camouflage in sand Danger never touch the tail

Re d-spo t te d Guard Crab

Many li t t le spo ts Ver y small wi th a big claw Has six tee th be twee n i ts eye s.

Eats mucus f rom hos t. Guards the coral e ver yday. Starfish e at them all the t ime.

Tyler

True or False?

1. Sea turtles eat it.

2. It lives in cauliflower coral.

3. It is an inch long.

4. It lives in staghorn coral.

5. It lives in the Atlantic Ocean.

6. It likes to live in warm water..

7. It eats mucus.

8. It guards coral.

9. It has been around since the dinosaurs.

10. It guards its home.

Answer Key:

1. False 2. True 3. False 4. False 5. False

6. True 7. True 8. True 9. True 10. True

ViperfishViperfishViperfish

Searching for sea flesh in the midnight zone darkness floating to attract my prey

Living in darkness piercing my prey at high speeds carnivore eats tiny fish by Tyler Casaday What eats a viperfish? Dolphins and sharks tend to prey upon viperfish.

When hunting it tends to float motionless for hours waving its light to attract other animals such as the dragon fish. When it’s close enough, it swims at it at high speeds. Then it pierces it with its sharp teeth. Fun facts 1. Huge teeth 2. Light emitting organ called photophore 3. Life span from 30-40 years 4. Lives worldwide 5. Weighs 30 grams

Blue Spotted Stingray by Victoria Jarvis

eats Blacktip Reef Shark has blue stripes down its body under the body is white

cruises over reefs is green on top of body two plates exist around mouth

Blue Spotted Stingray

The scientific name for a Blue Spotted Stingray is a Neotrygon Kuhlii. It’s also commonly found in water up to 30 feet (9 meters) deep.

Did you know that blacktip reef sharks eat blue spotted stingrays? And that blue spotted stingrays eat queen parrotfish and mussels?

A blue spotted stingray has blue spots, two blue stripes on each side of the tail and is light green. It buries itself in the sand to look for crabs and shrimp!!!!

MANATEE

MANATEES ARE COOL THEY ARE REALLY FAT AND CUTE FLOATS IN THE RIVER ALL DAY

ARE KILLED BY HUMANS WITH THEIR EVIL MOTOR BOATS HELP ME SAVE THE MANATEES

BY WILL TILMAN

They travel alone or in groups

Manatees are fat but they do have a healthy diet

MANATEES Physical characteristics

WHAT DO THAY LOOK LIKE?

You may not know what a manatee is or what they look like, well I am here to fix that. They have two forearms and a paddle-like tail. They are gray, and quite large. They also sometimes grow algae on their back.

Manatees have their own little place to go in the winter. They like warm water and go to warm springs in Florida.

Emperor Angelfish

In the coral reef The Emperor Angelfish Protects its territory

Weighs up to 2 pounds Has a mask around its face It is an amazing fish

by Zach