This shell covers covers their body like a box. Tortoises lay their eggs in the sand. The baby tortoise inside the egg is neither male nor female. The temperature of the sand in which the egg hatches determines whether a baby tortoise will become a male or a female. A male tortoise hatches at 28 degrees Celsius and a female tortoise hatches at 30 degrees Celsius.
Turtles lay their eggs in the sand, too.
As soon as baby turtles are hatched, they head straight for water for their first swim. When you are reading for information, it helps if you organize the information in a chart. Tortoises Turtles 2. Pretend that you are a baby turtle which has just hatched in the sand. Write a paragraph about a baby turtle.