Seahorses
These are tiny fish that are named for the shape of their head, which looks like the head of a tiny horse.
What are Seahorses?
Slow-moving mammals that are shaped like seals.
What is the Manatee?
Large fish that have a skeleton made of cartilage. They live in salt water all over the world, and as carnivores, they eat fish and other animals using their sharp teeth and powerful jaws.
What are Sharks?
These animals are among the oldest and largest animals that can be found in every ocean. They belong to a group of marine mammals called Cetaceans.
What are Whales?
A kind of animal with a soft body without a backbone. Most of these animals have a shell that protects the body.
What is a Mollusk?
Seahorses eat this animal. They are a small sea creatures with a shell, ten legs, and a long tail, or its flesh eaten as food.
What are Shrimp?
This is another name for Manatees. It starts with the word "Sea"
What are "Sea Cows"?
This shark's name comes from the unusual shape of its T-shaped head, it starts with the word "Hammer"
What is a Hammerhead shark?
What are the two kinds of whales. One kind has teeth and eats squid, fish, etc. and the other kind uses Baleen plates to filter out food like shrimp.
What are Baleen and Toothed Whales?
Name one to two animals that are considered mollusks.
What are snails, squid, octopus, clam, oyster, etc.?
Seahorses use their ____ to grasp objects, which is helpful when they want to anchor themselves to vegetation.
What are their tails?
Name one body of water where Manatees can live.
What are rivers, canals, bays, coastal areas?
This shark is the world's largest known predatory fish. It has 300 teeth and a heavy, torpedo-shaped body. This shark is in the movie "Jaws" and is what you first think of when you think of sharks.
What is the Great White Shark?
Name one to two whales that we talked about in class.
What are Blue whales, Humpback whales, Sperm whales, Orca, Beluga whales?
A diverse group of marine mollusks that inhabit both shallow and deep waters. They are found in every ocean and come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. They are known for their beautiful shells.
What are Sea Snails?
Which seahorse, male or female, gets pregnant and gives birth?
What are seahorse males?
This green organism grows on Manatee.
What is Algae?
Name one to two animals that sharks eat.
What are fish, dolphins, and seals?
What is the largest whale, which is also the largest animal on the earth?
What is the Blue Whale?
Sea mollusks famous for their rounded bodies, bulging eyes, and eight long arms. Like the squid, they are often considered, "monster's of the deep"
What are Octopuses?
A pouch in certain fish, frogs, and invertebrates in which the eggs are protected before hatching.
What is a Brood Pouch?
This animal is a distant relative of the Manatee.
What are Elephants?
This shark is the second-largest living shark and fish, after the whale shark. It is usually greyish-brown with the inside of the mouth being white in color. Hint: "the cat loved to bask in the sun."
What is the Basking Shark?
Whales do this to communicate, locate food, and find each other.
What is singing/making sounds?
Octopuses use their _____ that line their arms to pull their victims to their mouth!
What are suctions?