Sea Turtle

Sea turtles are generally found in the waters over continental shelves. After taking to the water for the first time, males will not return to shore again. During the first three to five years of life, sea turtles spend most time in the pelagic zone floating in seaweed beds. Green sea turtles in particular are often found in Sargassum beds, a brown seaweed in which they find shelter and food. Once the sea turtle has reached adulthood it moves closer to the shore. Females will come ashore to lay their eggs on sandy beaches during the nesting season.

It takes decades for sea turtles to reach sexual maturity. After mating at sea, adult female sea turtles return to land to nest at night. Different species of sea turtles exhibit various levels of philopatry. In the extreme case, females return to the beach where they hatched. This can take place every two to four years in maturity. They make from one to eight nests per season. The mature nesting female hauls herself onto the beach, nearly always at night, and finds suitable sand on which to create a nest. Using her hind flippers, she digs a circular hole 40 to 50 centimetres (16 to 20 in) deep. After the hole is dug, the female then starts filling the nest with a clutch of soft-shelled eggs one by one until she has deposited around 50 to 200 eggs, depending on the species. Some species have been reported to lay 250 eggs, such as the hawksbill. After laying, she re-fills the nest with sand, re-sculpting and smoothing the surface until it is relatively undetectable visually. The whole process takes thirty to sixty minutes. She then returns to the ocean, leaving the eggs untended.

Turtle gender depends on sand temperature while the egg is incubating.

The hatchling's gender depends on the sand temperature. Lighter sands maintain higher temperatures, which decreases incubation time and results in more female hatchlings.

It takes several decades for adult sea turtles to reach sexual maturity. The mature turtles migrate, sometimes for thousands of miles, to reach breeding sites. Male and female turtles mate in the water, and the males return to deep sea to feed. For several weeks, female sea turtles alternate between mating in the water and laying their eggs on land. Before laying her eggs, a female turtle will dig a hole in the sand with her hind flippers. She covers it with sand and returns to the ocean. About two months pass for the eggs to incubate under the sand. Afterwards, the eggs hatch, generally at night to avoid predation, and the hatchlings crawl to the water. They then swim out to sea to begin their own cycle of maturing and reproducing. Sea turtles can continue this cycle until they are 80 years old.

 

Incubation takes about two months. The eggs in one nest hatch together over a very short period of time. When ready, hatchlings tear their shells apart with their snout and dig through the sand. Again, this usually takes place at night. Once they reach the surface, they instinctively head towards the sea. If, as happens on rare occasions, hatching takes place during daylight, only a very small proportion of each hatch succeed (usually 1%), because local opportunist predators, such as the common seagull, gorge on the new sea turtles. Thus there is an obvious evolutionary drive to hatch at night, when survival rates on the beach are much higher.

Analytical Exposition

SOCIAL MEDIA IN DAILY LIFE

The youth of the world is often the most ready to adapt to and learn to use new technologies, and they are certainly at the forefront of social media of all types. They have more technological know-how than many of older generations as well. Social media, therefore, is certainly having a rather large impact on their daily lives for good and for bad.

Those who spend too much time on social sites, or who take the abuses of online bullies seriously on the sites could have some issues. For parents, even those of teenagers who are 16 and 17, it is important to watch to make sure that social media sites do not take over the lives of children. When used appropriately, it can be a very good thing.

Another reason people are spending as much time as they do on social media sites is because they can be a great form of entertainment. Watch videos that people post to their timelines, view pictures, read stories, and even play games. Whether using a smart phone, a tablet, or a traditional computer, more and more people are utilizing social media in their daily lives. Few things have quite as much impact and affect as social media over the past few years. The sites are certainly a step toward world globalization.

If technology is managed carefully, there are many benefits in which it can help our working lives, but we need to set boundaries. We would do well to give it a rest whenever possible, especially on holiday so we can spend quality time with friends and family without being distracted by our mobile phone. We should set aside time after work to ‘turn off’ our devices

I think social media have a lots of benefits even there are still some bad effects. I as the social media user too, really felt the effects. Social media is a great source of information in our social life. For example when one of my friend had a birthday, I and the others may know it quickly after someone publish it on the social media. Its really useful and still so many more the benefits of it. But, I think the bad effects is I as a teenager still can't manage how much the time spend on social media from our gadget. So, my parents often advise me about it.

IF CLAUSE

If I have a billion dollars, I....

1. I wanna build a castle that made from chocolate, so if anytime I want chocolate I just have to take it from the part of building. But, I wonder if I break the part of building and the building then collapsed and killed me, lol
2. I will buy all kinds of shoes and jackets with all kinds of brands for male of course
3. I will make my own Disney Land so I don't have to go outside the country and the most importantly ONLY ME WHO CAN ENTER THAT PLACE hahahha
4. I will buy Bali Field (lapangan Bali) so only SMAN 3 Bandung students who can enter it :)
5. I will give someone 20 tons of flowers
6. I will be rich of course
7. I will Umrah with all of my family O:)
8. I will build my own private cinema in the castle in no. 1
9. I will buy my own private airplane
10. I will buy my school so I wont take exams :)

I will be happy if I......

1. I can go anywhere I want, anytime
2. I can make people whom I love happy
3. I can dive in the water as long as I want
4. I can fly like a bird
5. I make my parents proud of me
6. I got 100 on my math and physics :)
7. I am acknowledged by all people in the world
8. I go to heaven, but not now hahahaha
9. I have a billion dollars
10. I am not sad, of course