Facts about Seals

Seals

By Susan Brocker

School Journal, Level 2, August 2015

Learning Intentions:

• We are learning to: Find information in the text.
• We are learning to: Explain words/phrases in a simple way to show our understanding.

Learning Activities.

List 5 ways that seals are adapted to survive well in water.
they can stor alot of oxygen in there blood which they can use
to breath under water.

 They have powerful flippers to help swim fast whenever they
need to, they also have a thick skin to keep them warm
whenever there in cold water.                                                                                    They have whiskers to sence for food like Squid, and fish.        Each mother has there own special “voice”.

1. List the 3 most common New Zealand seals and write down 5 

facts about each of them. Kekeno This is our most common
seal. Fur seals have large dark eyes,  a pointed nose,
as well as the furry coat that gives them their name,
Juveniles have been located at more than 1000 km from where they were born, and Sea lions and fur seals are distinguished from other species of seals by their ear flaps and their hind flippers, which they can rotate forward, enabling them to move quickly when on land.

(whakahao)
The New Zealand sea lion is larger than a fur seal
and has a flatter nose. The females are cream-coloured,
and the males are dark brown.
The male sea lions are a lot bigger than the females.
The adult males also have thick hair around their necks like a
lion’s mane. (This is how sea lions get their name.)
There are only about 10,000 New Zealand sea lions left alive. 

Southern elephant seal (ihupuku) 

This is the world’s largest seal
– some elephant seals are as heavy as a small truck
(weighing up to 3,700 kilograms). The male has a big,
fleshy nose like an elephant’s trunk. Because of its size
, the elephant seal moves very slowly on land,
But these massive pinnipeds aren't called elephant seals
because of their size

2. List 5 facts you can find about seals and their babies.

Seals: Seals spend much of their life in water, but they mate,
give birth to babies and take care of them on the shore.
Thick fur and blubber offer protection against freezing
temperatures. When they are on the land, they live in
huge colonies with over thousand seals.
Seal produce milk with 50% fats.

Baby seals: Seals spend much of their life in water,
but they mate, give birth to babies and
take care of them on the shore.
Thick fur and blubber offer protection against freezing
temperatures. When they are on the land, they live in huge
colonies with over thousand seals. Seal produce milk with 50%
fats

3. List 3 dangers to seals and say why each of these are dangerous for seals.  
4. Polynesia People who first came to NewZealand, becuase
5. They kill Seals, so they can make a coat out of it. Polution,
6. it can strangel them, it can Kill them, it can Poison them.

Seals. Seals are the acrobats of the sea,
but they are very clumsy on land.
A seal easily races through the water at 35 kilometers per hour,
while it is lucky to cover 2 kilometers per hour on land.
With its cute, round eyes, seals see very well under water.

Vocabulary  - New, exciting and interesting words:

Explain these words / phrases in a simple way / in your own words.

• Blubber: Is the fat that is keeping them warm.
• Environment: Is what they have.
• Mammals: used to be alive but no they are excetincted.
• rookeries:a breeding colony of rooks,
• typically seen as a collection of nests high in a clump of trees.
• Sensing movement: they can smell,
• hear there movements.
• Streamlined bodie:
• A streamlined body is a shape that lowers the friction drag
• between a fluid, like air and water.
• Come ashor: on the shore or land from the direction of the sea.
• Give birth: when someone is pregnate and the baby
• comes out of the person.
• Defend their territor: means the defend their land.
• Pump up their chests. They make it fat.
• Endangered species: means there in trouble
• Social animals. Animals that are on the internet.