The name of the fin on the back of a shark (or any other marine animal)
What is the dorsal fin?
100
The soup common in many Asian countries whose increased popularity has led to an increase in shark deaths.
What is shark fin soup?
100
The part of a male shark that distinguishes it from a female shark
What are claspers?
100
The largest batoid.
What is a manta ray?
200
This shark is considered the most dangerous shark to humans.
What is the bull shark?
200
The name of the fins that are on either side of a shark.
What is pectoral fin?
200
One non food product we use from sharks.
What is squalene (shark oil). (Cosmetics, lotions etc okay)
200
One of two names for a shark's skin
What is dermal denticles or placoid scales?
200
The type of cartilaginous fish that always gives live birth, rather than laying eggs.
What is a ray?
300
This shark is one of the fastest- some people say it can go up to 60 miles an hour.
What is the mako shark?
300
The number of gill slits most sharks have.
What is 5?
300
One event that, although rare, still kills more humans ever year than sharks do.
What is being struck by lightening, being trampled by cows or pigs, falling out of bed or in the shower etc.
300
The type of camouflage in which an animal is dark on top to blend in with the ocean depths, and light on the bottom to blend in with the surface.
What is counter shading?
300
The common name for fish from the group Holocephali, a very rare group of cartilaginous fish that not much is know about.
What is elephant fish, ghost shark, or chimera?
400
This shark lives on the ocean floor in coral reefs and has great camouflage. It has many barbels around its mouth.
What is the Wobbegong?
400
The special apparatus that works with the gills to help sharks, skates, and rays breathe.
What is the spiracle?
400
The type of net that is dragged along the bottom of the ocean floor in order to catch fish or shrimp, that also catches sharks as bycatch.
What is trawl nets or trawling?
400
The part of the shark that senses movement or vibrations in the water
What is the lateral line?
400
Two examples of animals that produce "mermaid's purses"
What are skates and swell sharks?
500
This shark is was only discovered thirty years ago and is rarely seen.
What is the megamouth shark?
500
The name for the tail fin.
What is the caudal fin?
500
The type of fishing done when you string between one and sixty miles of monofilament behind a boat with several hundred hooks on it. This type of fishing accidentally catches sharks as bycatch.
What is long line fishing?
500
The part of the shark that sense electrical currents in the water