Fish Facts
Fish don’t close their eyes but enter a resting state similar to this.
What is sleep?
These tiny creatures make up much of a whale’s diet.
What are krill or plankton?
These tiny drifters stay near the sunlight zone because they depend on photosynthesis.
What is plankton?
Scientists estimate there are over 150 million metric tons of this in the ocean.
What is plastic?
There are likely hundreds of millions to over a billion of this fearsome predator swimming in our oceans.
What are sharks?
Some species of this spiny creature can inject venom that causes paralysis.
What are sea urchins?
Deep sea creatures survive under immense pressure by having what adaptations for deep-sea survival?
What are flexible bodies and special enzymes.
Each year, around this amount of trash enters the ocean.
What is 14 billion pounds?
Scientists have identified over 33,000–37,000 of these aquatic species.
What are fish species?
These hard-shelled crustaceans can often be found hiding among coral reefs.
What are crabs?
These fish are contenders for the title fastest deep-sea fish.
What are sailfish and black marlin?
Many organizations use these methods to clean up ocean waste.
What is cleanup drives, recycling, and bans?
This rare, prehistoric-looking fish was once thought extinct until rediscovered in 1938.
What is the coelacanth?
There are about this many species of whales.
What is 90 species?
Sperm whales can dive deeper than 3,000 feet, sometimes reaching this record depth.
What is about 10,000 feet (3,000 meters)?
These inventions can help clean our seas.
What are ocean booms and trash interceptors?
True or false: There are still undiscovered fish species in the ocean.
What is true?
This animal is the largest animal on Earth and lives in the ocean.
What is the Blue whale?
Giant squids have been recorded at depths of nearly 3,000 feet, also known as this deep.
What is the mesopelagic zone (or twilight zone)?
More than 100,000 marine animals die annually from this global issue.
What is ocean waste (plastic pollution)?