How do sea turtles grow?

How do sea turtles grow?

What is a sea turtles life cycle and how do they grow with out there mother?

The mother lays her eggs in the sand and then abandons her eggs. If she stays on the sand for to long she will die because she doesn't have enough water to keep her body temperature cool. She abandons her eggs because they need to learn how to look after them selves.

Once they have hatched they crawl to the ocean and then they float on there back. Some of them don’t make it to the ocean because of predators. Once they get used to the water the slowly swim down into the bottom of the ocean.

Sea turtles grow by eating but there shells do not grow so they find other shells in the ocean. They shift between different shells to find one that can fit them. Sea turtles eat Algae,sea weed and sea grass to make them grow.

This is a sea turtles life cycle. Some baby sea turtles don’t make it to the ocean because of predators