Refer to the graph below. A mother sea turtle comes to shore, lays hundreds of eggs, buries them in the sand, and leaves.Later, the baby sea turtles hatch and waddle into the water, where they live their lives.Every year, surviving sea turtles find their way back to the same beach to lay their own eggs, guided by ocean currents and magnetic fields.This organism's life cycle most likely follows which of these types of survivorship curves?

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Refer to the graph below.  A mother sea turtle comes to shore, lays hundreds of eggs, buries them in the sand, and leaves.Later, the baby sea turtles hatch and waddle into the water, where they live their lives.Every year, surviving sea turtles find their way back to the same beach to lay their own eggs, guided by ocean currents and magnetic fields.This organism's life cycle most likely follows which of these types of survivorship curves?

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The life cycle of sea turtles follows a Type III survivorship curve because the mortality rate is very high for the young, vulnerable baby sea turtles due to predation and environmental hazards. However, if they survive this critical stage, their chances of survival increase significantly. The population of adult sea turtles is relatively large, but this alone does not determine the type of survivorship curve.

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