First off, what is an adaptation and a niche?
Adaptations are special traits that an organism can use for many different reasons like protection and for food. (Natural Selection)
Niches are the roles that an organism has in its ecosystem.
Niches are the roles that an organism has in its ecosystem.
Adaptations of the Green Sea Turtle
The Green Sea Turtle has many adaptations including being strong swimmers and having forelimbs that can become paddlers for swimming. Since they live underwater for the most part, being strong swimmers is a very good adaptation to have and the cause of being a strong swimmer is natural selection. The same situation with the forelimbs!
Niches of the Green Sea Turtle
The Green Sea Turtle plays many roles in there aquatic ecosystem! Their niches include eating tons of algae and sea grass. When they eat the sea grass, they are helping maintain the sea grass beds so they look good. Whenever the female green sea turtle lay their eggs on sand dunes, they are improving the vegetation of the sand dunes! Also, the kids of the adult green sea turtle eat jellyfish, sponges, and worms.