Key Vocabulary Terms
Review these key terms from Loggerhead Marinelife Center's Virtual Coastal Classroom Lesson to help you find the answers and unlock our favorite photos and gifs of Fortin!
Adaptation: a heritable physical or behavioral trait that serves a specific function and improves an organism's ability to survive
Arribada: the synchronized, large-scale nesting of some species of sea turtle (such as the Kemp’s ridley and olive ridley)
Beak: any of various rigid projecting mouth structures (as of a turtle)
Carapace: a bony plate covering the back or part of the back of an animal (such as a turtle or crab)
Countershading: cryptic coloration of an animal with parts normally in shadow being light and parts normally illuminated being dark thereby reducing shadows and contours
Habitat: the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows
Laceration: a cut in the skin
Plastron: the ventral part (underside) of the shell of a tortoise or turtle consisting typically of nine symmetrically placed bones
Prey: an animal taken by another animal as food
Rehabilitation: restoration especially by therapeutic means to an improved condition of physical function
Scute: an external bony or horny plate or large scale
Species: a class of individuals having common attributes and designated by a common name