Greenland+Shark

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The 4 characteristics of living things
__Growth and Development:__ The Greenland Shark grows and develops like every other shark.media type="youtube" key="B-whabKr_r0" width="425" height="350"

__Respond:__ The Greenland Shark responds to it's environment like no other shark in the world it lives in extremely deep frigid waters near Greenland and it's body adapted to the temperatures even though most sharks can only live in warm water

__Reproduce:__ The Greenland Shark usually swims alone so it has to swim for along time to find females

__One or more cells:__ The Greenland Shark has Scale cells, Brain cells, Cartilage Cells etc

__Random facts:__ The Greenland Shark is a deep water shark. Some of the foods they eat include fish, horses, seals, reindeer's and polar bears etc. The Greenland Shark is classified as a scavenger. This shark hosts a parasite called a copepod which latches on to the sharks cornea and eats the cornea so the shark is partially blind but can detect light. The Greenland Shark's life span is about 200 years. It's in the category of Animalia. media type="custom" key="5461035" width="20" height="20" __Kingdom - Animalia__ - It cannot make its own food - Its multicellular

__Phylum - Chordata__ - It has a vertabrate

__Class - Chondrichthyes__ - It is a jawed fish - It has paired fins, nars, scales, two-chambered hearts, and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone

__Order - Squaliformes__ - Members of the order have two dorsal fins, which usually possess spines, no anal fin or niciting membrane, and five gill slits
 * -** Squaliformes is an order of sharks that includes about 80 species in seven families

__Family - Somniosidae__ Somniosidae is a family of sharks in the order squaliformes, commonly known as sleeper sharks

__Genus - Somniosus__ Somniosus is a genus of dogfish sharks in the family somniosidae

__Adaptation__ The Greenland Shark adapts to it's enviroment by constantly moving and it also changed it's blood structure. It also has air pockets inside it's body to retain heat and it also has more fat than normal sharks.