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Bird Brain
100
This behavior helps protect fish from predators.
What is schooling?
100
These are the fastest fish in the ocean.
What are sailfish?
100
The number of years sharks have existed.
What is more than 400 million years?
100
The largest fish in the ocean.
What is the whale shark?
100
This bird has absorbent feathers, which help make the bird heavier and stay underwater as it hunts.
What is the cormorant?
200
This organ helps fish breathe under water.
What are gills?
200
Marlin, sailfish and swordfish are all examples of this.
What is a billfish?
200
The number of shark species that exist.
What is more than 470?
200
Another name for the manta ray.
What is the devil fish?
200
This bird with a silly name makes high speed dives into the water to seize its prey.
What is the blue-footed booby?
300
These structures filter out the food particles that pass through the gills.
What are the gill rakers?
300
The main reason tuna are becoming extinct.
What is overfishing?
300
What shark skeletons are made of.
What is cartilage?
300
These help the manta ray move plankton into its mouth.
What are the lobes in front of the mouth?
300
This bird spends months at sea, is as small as a sparrow, feeds off krill and breeds on the coasts of Antarctica.
What is the storm petrel?
400
Water passes into the fish through the mouth, then out of the fish through this.
What is the gill flap?
400
A large school of fish that begins to swim in a tight cluster.
What is a bait ball?
400
This shark uses its tail to thrash and stun its prey.
What is the thresher shark?
400
The three types of filter feeders in the shark family.
What are basking sharks, whale sharks and megamouth sharks?
400
These allow gannets and boobies to survive the impact of their high-speed dives.
What are the air sacs under their skin that absorb the impact?
500
Fish use these two senses to swim in close formations in schools.
What are visual cues (what they see on other fish) and pressure changes (waves generated by neighboring fish)?
500
These are the reasons billfish are such good hunters.
What are streamlined body, powerful muscles, and a sharp upper jaw to injure prey.
500
These characteristics make the great white a deadly hunter.
What are streamlined body, powerful jaws, 300 teeth, tail adapted for speed and highly-tuned sense for detecting prey.
500
The length of a whale shark.
What is up to 46 feet long?
500
These 5 birds are all examples of ocean birds with specialized wings adapted to swim under water.
What are auks, guillemots, razorbills, puffins and penguins?