Appearence

The Great White Shark can grow to 3 ½ to 5 metres long and it can weigh up to about 1,200 kg.  The female is larger than the male.  They can have 3,000 teeth which are in rows.  Each tooth is saw toothed and is a triangle shape.  When a tooth is broken or lost it is replaced by a tooth from the next row.  The Shark is torpedo shaped with a pointy snout.  It has 5 gill slits and no fin spines and a anal fin and three main fins.  When the shark is swimming near the surface of the water the dorsal fin and the top part of the tail are showing above the water.  The Great White Shark is white on its belly and its top is a grey blue colour.

Diet

The Great White Shark  fish, rays, other sharks, sea lions, seals, toothed whales, sea turtles and dead animals drifting in the water.  They do not chew their food like we do they just swallow the pieces they tare off whole.

Habitate and Preditors

The Great White Shark lives at the south east side of Australia in the ocean.  It also lives on the coast of other countries around the world.The only predator

of the Great White Shark is the Man.

Pecularities

The Great White Shark’s eyes roll back into its head.  This protects the eyes from injury by struggling prey.

The shark has to keep its tail moving for it to keep alive.  The Great white shark doesn’t have any bones in its skeleton.

 Instead it has cartilage.Sharks keep their body temperature to 8 degrees Celsius than the water they are swimming.

The Great White Shark is a fish but they do not have bones like other fish, instead they have “cartilaginous skeleton”.  Also their scales are not smooth and oily like other fish but they are very rough and also their gills are gill slits which are open.