Tiger Sharks
By: Bradley Wong
Table of Contents Page 1 - Table of Contents Page 2 - Sharks Page 3 - Location, Hunting & Eats Page 4 - Looks & Name Page 5 - Breaths Page 6 - Size & Weight Page 7 - Glossary Page 8 - Bibliography Page 9 - About The Author
Sharks A Lot of people think sharks are evil and deadly, but they are not to us. Sometimes sharks attack people because they think you are something else like a seal or another sea animal. For example, a shark bites your foot and realizes it made a mistake and swims away, this is called a hit and run. Shark attacks happen not so often the attacks have gone up because more and more people go to se every year and more and more attacks. Sharks can be friendly if you feed them so they won’t eat you. Do you still think sharks are bad? We are hurting them by making shark fin soup. if they die out we will have too many fish and the water level will rise. We have to save sharks. Also overfishing fish is bad because there are not many fish for the shark to eat. In some places their numbers are declining rapidly. So please save the sharks.
The tiger sharks love to eat fish and squid. They are strong and can cut through turtle shells and bones. They feed on a wide variety of large prey like birds, fish, mammals, sea snakes, turtles, and other animals. You can also find a lot of bottles and other stuff in its stomach. The tiger shark is also called
Eating, Hunting & Habitat
the swimming trash can because it eats anything.The tiger shark likes to swim in warm and temperate areas and near land so like shallow water.They like to be near sea grass beds, coral reefs, open coasts, or oceanic islands. The tiger sharks are slow cruisers. It goes after its prey very slowly. When they spot food they speed up and circle its prey for a long period of time. It bumps it with its fin or snout then it attacks fast.
Fun Facts The scientific name for the Tiger Shark is the Galeocerdo Cuvier.
The tiger shark gets its name by the spots and stripes on its back of the main dark color. A tiger sharks body has a big broad head that looks square from above. The front of its head looks like a wide wedge. Its nose is clearly visible on the corners of
Look & Name
its square snout. Its head is made for quick turns in water. These sharks are dark-gray brown or bluish-green, almost black on the top, or dorsal, side and white or light yellow on the bottom, or ventral, side. The coloring of the tiger shark makes it look like a tiger.
Fun Facts The blue shark, lemon shark and gray shark are in the family of the tiger shark.
The tiger shark can breath because its sides have five slits in their skin these are named Gill Slits. First the shark takes water through its mouth. The water goes through its gills which
Breathing
takes away oxygen from it. Then the water is removed from the body through its gill slits.The tiger shark also has small gill slits. They are behind the eye of the tiger shark. They make oxygen that goes to the eyes and the brain in a separate blood vessel.These are hard ridges where the body narrows for the tail attachments. These ridges
Fun Facts
look like bones but they are
The tiger shark can live
made up by cartilage. It is
for 40 years or more. The
a tough tissue that we have
female can give birth to
like in our nose, ear and kneecaps.
80 young sharks.
Tiger sharks can be huge. A normal size tiger shark can weigh up to 1600 pounds. But some may weigh up to 3 TONS!!! They often can weigh more then 0.9 tons. The tiger shark is usually 10 to 14 feet long. the female sharks is slightly lager then the males. They may reach up to 23 feet long. The upper part of the tiger sharks tail is pointed and 3 times longer than bottom part of the tail. The tiger sharks is in the large shark category.
Size & Weight
Glossary category - list
visible - able to see
Cartilage - the soft bones
oxygen - Air we breath
Vertical - Up to down
separate - go away from each other
Galeocerdo Cuvier - science name for tiger shark
attachments - stick together
temperate - Heat
shallow - Not so deep
period - long time
wedge - A triangle that cuts stuff.
Bibliography Website -‐ http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/wild/shark-attack-experiment-live/videos/great-white-attacksurvivor/ www.gooogle.com www.bing.com Save the sharks
Author -‐ Sharks,Tiger sharks. Author Welsbacher, Anna, Parker and Steve
About The Author Bradley Wong was born in Taiwan. He left Taiwan to Beijing when he was three months old. now he is 11 years old. He was born in January 29th 2003. He is a student in SAS ( Shanghai America School ). His favorite sport is soccer. He dream is to study tiger sharks and write books about them. His favorite subject is science and writing. His best friends are William, Kaden, Oliver,Kevin and Anderson. He likes to play Seer And said You should play too.