Fish Facts
Fish breathe with these.
What are gills?
This is a place where a plant or animals lives.
What is a habitat?
This is the biggest fish in the world.
What is the whale shark?
These fish eat other fish, insects, seeds, fruit, and sometimes larger animals.
What are piranhas?
Baby fish are called this.
What are fry?
Gills take this from the water and pass it into the fish's body.
What is oxygen?
These are two types of water that fish can live in.
What are fresh water and salt water?
This is the usual home of choice for clownfish.
This type of fish can change from a female into a male.
What is an emperor angelfish?
Baby fish hatch from these.
What are eggs?
These help protect the fish from underwater dangers.
What are scales?
Some of the most colorful fish live in the ocean around these.
What are coral reefs?
These fish look just like stones.
What are stonefish?
With this type of fish, the male attaches himself to the female and gets smaller as he ages.
What is the anglerfish?
A shark baby is called this.
What is a pup?
Types of living things that have backbones.
What are vertebrates?
Name the two oceans that are around the Unites States.
What are the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
This protects the clownfish's body from the stinging tentacles of sea anemones.
What is slime?
This is a fish that lives in shallow water in muddy freshwater swamps.
What is a mudskipper?
Name a type of fish that pairs for life (that was mentioned in the book).
What is a long-nosed butterfly fish or freshwater angelfish?
What are schools?
Name the three oceans that do not surround the United States.
What are the Indian, Southern, and Arctic Oceans?
A butterfly fish has this on his back to trick predators.
What is a pretend eye?
This is a fish that lives in the deep ocean. It sinks its thin, sharp teeth into its prey so it won't get away.
What is a fangtooth?
Baby fish have this that they used for food.
What is a yolk sac?