What is a Shark?
Amazing Sharks
Characteristics
Swimming
Bonus
100
a large fish that lives in seas and oceans across the world.
What is a shark.
100
This shark's head is shaped like a hammer and it has eyes on each side of its head. It swings its head from side to side to get an all-around view.
What is a hammer-head shark.
100
Two of the shark's most important weapons. They are designed to help it catch prey.
What are teeth and tail.
100
**BONUS QUESTION** Most sharks are _______ and ________ swimmers.
What are graceful and powerful.
100
**BONUS QUESTION** Sharks have 4 of the same senses as humans. They are?
What is touch, hearing, sight, and smell.
200
Some_______ are tiny, others are giants. Some are gently and some are fierce.
What are sharks.
200
The _______ ________ shark eats other sharks for dinner, along with whole penguins, seals, and sea lions.
What is great white.
200
When one set of teeth wears out, what happens?
What is another set comes in.
200
Shark swim in an ___ shaped movement.
What is S.
200
**BONUS QUESTION** Great white sharks have __________ teeth. Each one is about as long as your finger.
What is 3,000.
300
Sharks don't have _______. Their skeletons are made from light stretchy cartilage.
What are bones.
300
The gentle whale shark is the world's biggest fish. It weighs as much as two _________.
What are elephants.
300
The shark's ________ helps push is along.
What is tail.
300
The shark's ______ on each side of its body help it steer.
What are fins.
300
**BONUS QUESTION** Baby sharks called _______.
What are pups.
400
Sharks breathe through slits called ______.
What are gills.
400
**BONUS QUESTION** How many different kinds of sharks are there?
What are hundreds.
400
**BONUS QUESTION** _______ swimmers have curved tails.
What is fast.
400
The shark's stiff fin on its ________ helps with balance.
What is back.
400
**BONUS QUESTION** The ______________ shark has a flat, T-shaped head that makes it look different from any other shark.
What is hammerhead.
500
Sharks have been living on Earth for ______ million years. They were around at the time of the dinosaurs.
What is 400.
500
The fastest shark in the ocean can swim at _____ miles per hour.
What is 45.
500
The small ____________ shark swims up to a larger fish, takes a bite out of its side (the shape of a cookie), and swims away again very quickly.
What is a cookie-cutter.
500
Inside most fish is an air-filled _______________. It keeps the fish afloat. Most have to keep swimming or they will sink!
What are swimbladders.
500
**BONUS QUESTION** How to stay safe when swimming.
What is swim with your friends and never swim if you are bleeding.
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