Ocean Animals

Sea Animals

100

I walk sideways and have a shell. Many of us cross Christmas Island to lay eggs once a year.

Crabs

200

We live in pits and have one long fin down our backs.

Eels

300

I protect myself with my tail, which has venom in it.

Stingray

400

I lay my eggs in the sand, and when my babies hatch, they head to the light of the moon to find the ocean. Sometimes they get eaten on their way, and they can get confused if the houses nearby have lights on.

Sea Turtle

500

If I lose one of my arms, I can grow a new one.

Sea stars

Fish

100

What do fish use to help them swim?

fins

200

What do fish use to help them breath underwater?

gills

300

True or false: MOST fish are hatched from eggs

True

400

All fish can live in the ocean

False

500

Name the part of the body fish have on the outside of their body.

What is scales

Ocean

100

True or false: Plankton keeps all living things in the ocean alive.

True 

200

Which ocean is the largest? The Pacific Ocean The Atlantic Ocean The Indian Ocean

The Pacific Ocean

300

What is the top layer of the ocean called?

Sunlit Zone

400

What is the bottom layer of the ocean called?

Abyss

500

What ocean is closest to where we live?

The Atlantic Ocean

Name that sea animal

100

This animal is a large, marine crustacean with a cylindrical body, it also changes colors when cooked.

Lobster

200

This animal is a large marine reptile with a bony or leathery shell and flippers, coming ashore annually on sandy beaches to lay eggs.

Sea turtle

300

This animal is a very large marine mammal with a hairless body, a horizontal tail fin, and a blowhole on top of the head for breathing.

Whale

400

This sea animal is a free-swimming marine animal with a saucer-shaped body that is typically clear and has stinging tentacles around the edges

jellyfish

500

This animal is a bottom-dwelling marine animal with a flattened diamond-shaped body and a long poisonous serrated spine at the base of the tail.

sting ray

Sharks/Whales

100

Eyes and notrils are far apart Unique head shape

Hammer head shark

200

True or false: Sharks have layers of teeth that grow new ones when they lose some.

True

300

This is another name for killer whale

Orca

400

What is the biggest animal in the ocean.

The Blue Whale

500

What part of a whale's body helps it breathe?

The blowhole