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Deep Sea Creatures
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Into the Forest
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Females have dorsal spines that are bioluminescent at the tip. They use this adaptation to attract smaller fish as food like in Finding Nemo.
What is an anglerfish?
100
Also known as anenomefish, they make their homes inside of anemones. They share a symbiotic relationship with the anenome they make their home in.
What is a clownfish?
100
They are a type of evergreen, meaning they stay green and don't loose their leaves at any time in the year. They have blue-grey colored berries that have a strong taste and smell. They can grow up to 50 feet tall.
What is a juniper?
100
They have unique stripe patterns, the pattern on one will not ever match another. They travel in herds that can combine making it possible for there to be hundreds of them in one place at one time and they live in the savanna.
What is a zebra?
100
There name is missleading considering they are beetles instead of flies. They produce light with cells called photocytes. Their young are sometimes refered to as glowworms.
What is a firefly?
200
A crustacean that is the largest of all isopods. They are scavengers that eat dead sea creatures that fall to the ocean floor.
What is a giant isopod?
200
They are known for their ability to puff up like a ballon filling with air when they are startled. Many variations of this fish are poisonus and in Japan they will be prepared to be eaten after having their poisonous spines removed.
What is a pufferfish?
200
Most people know this bird for being in a Christmas song. They are hunted for there meat, making them "game birds". There are many variations of this bird, each with their own, unique colors.
What is a partrige?
200
They can make their ears close when digging tunnels. They usually see them living in small groups, making tunnels as one family. You might recognize them from being one of the mains character in The Lion King.
What is a meerkat?
200
They are rodents, related to squirrels and mice. They have stripes going down their back that can range in color and number. There are over 25 variations of them. They mostly live in North America, but can also live in parts of Europe and Asia.
What is a chipmunk?
300
They are shaped like giant pistals and they have beach ball sized eyes that let them see in the deep waters of the ocean. The largest found of this species was about 60 feet long and almost 2000 pounds.
What is a giant squid?
300
They get their name because they look like underwater brains. They are made of polyps which attact to rock and make a masive coral.
What is brain coral?
300
They are a type of wild cattle that live high elevations in Asia. They are used for many different things like for transportation, meat, milk, and long thick fur. In China they are known as hairy cattle.
What is a yak?
300
They are large antelopes, living in the plains of Africa. They play a very important role in their ecosystem. Their name means "wild beast" in Afrikaas.
What is a wildebeast?
300
They are known for being able to spray their preditors with smelly oils that come from under their tails. The oils aren't dangerous, but can stain and stink clothing for days.
What is a skunk?
400
They get there name from their enormous mouth. They can have mouths longer than their bodies and expandable stomaches that alow them to eat food larger than they are.
What is a gulper eel?
400
They have flat bodies and long thin tails that have a venomous barb on the end of them. Sometimes they will use there tails to help them get baried in the sand.
What is a stingray?
400
They are rodents that are related to mice. Every 2-5 years they will reproduce in populations so large that they have to migrate to find more food and a better habitat. Common myths state that they will jump of cliffs during migration into the ocean.
What is a lemming?
400
They are a brown or grey color. When threatened they can widely open their mouths, revealing a black-blue color, this is wheere their name comes from. They are very dangerous from their extremely poisonous venom, but they will try avoid humans the best they can.
What is a black mamba?
400
They are small green non-flowering plants that grow across the globe. They can live in extremely dry weather for months and come back to life in an hour after being watered. The provide losts of energy for caribou in cold weather.
What is moss?
500
They have ribbon-shaped bodies and can grow up to 35 feet long and weigh over 600 pounds. People believe that they were the start of sea monster stories. It is possible to see them at surface, but extremely rare.
What is an oarfish?
500
They get their name from their crown like tenticals on the side of their head. They will retract these tenticals when they see any danger. They live in long tubes often made of mud or sand that are held together with mucus.
What is a feather duster worm?
500
They are also known as firefoxes and are related to both giant pandas and raccoons. They weigh 8 pounds and are about 23 inches long.
What is a red panda?
500
They weave grass, weeds, straw, fur, and other soft materials to make their nests. The final nest will be like a bird apartment building because they build "rooms" on top of each other with each bird in a family having there own "room". There nests can be up to 10 feet tall.
What is a weaver bird?
500
It can grow in vines and bushes with small greenish fruit. Many people are allergict to the oil this plant produces. "leaves of three, let it be" is a saying people use to avoid this plant.
What is poison ivy?