Species
Which species of shark is currently the largest?
Whale shark
Do sharks typically live in fresh or salt water?
Salt water
What are shark skeletons made of?
Cartilage
What do Great White sharks like to eat?
Seals, sea lions, rays
Approximately how many species of sharks are there?
400-500
Which species of shark is the only one to take gulps of air?
Sand tiger
In which ocean are sharks most abundant?
Atlantic
Which part of the shark helps it maintain buoyancy?
Liver
What do Basking Sharks like to eat?
Plankton
Why did the Megalodon go extinct?
Ocean temperatures, evolving sizes of prey
Which species of shark has been seen jumping up to 9 ft out of the water?
Mako Sharks
Which species of shark is thought to live in deeper waters than any other shark?
Hint: it has more gills than the average shark
Sixgill shark
How many gills do most sharks have?
5
What is the name of the delicacy made by taking the fins off of sharks?
Shark fin soup
Which species of shark is known as the “living fossil”?
Goblin shark
Which species of shark famously uses a buccal method (muscles that suck up water as opposed to forcing water over the gills) to breathe?
Nurse shark
In which hyper-salty lake, mislabeled as a sea, are there no sharks?
The Dead Sea
Where is the Ampullae of Lorenzini (helps shark detect electrical signal) located?
Throughout their faces
Which species of shark takes small, circular bites out of its prey?
Cookie cutter shark
Which species has venom at the base of their spines?
hint: we “dissected” it
Spiny dogfish
Which species of shark can have litters of 30 - 50 at a time?
hint: they have stripes that fade as they grow older
Tiger shark
Where are there the most shark attacks in the world?
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
What are the main differences between cartilaginous and bony fish?
Skeleton made of cartilage
Cartilaginous fish live primarily in salt water, bony fish can be marine or freshwater
Bony fish have a swim bladder
Bony fish have gill covers
Which species of shark famously eats anything? Scientists have found things like nails, chickens, hyenas and even a chicken coop in their stomachs
Which species of shark can have up to 50 rows of teeth?
Bull shark