Sharks
True or False
Sharks are fish
True!
True of False
Whales and Dolphins are fish
False!
They are mammals just like you and I
Male seals are called bulls, female seals are called:
a. goats
b. sows
c. sheep
d. cows
d. cows
(babies are called pups!)
True or False
Corals are animals
True!
True or false
Life in the deep sea relies on photosynthesis.
False
Sharks can:
a. survive out of water for a long time
b. sense prey from 100 miles away
c. sense electromagnetic fields and temperature shifts
c. sense electromagnetic fields and temperature shifts
At 90 feet long or more, the blue whale is:
a. The largest animal that ever lived
b. The second largest animal that ever lived
c. The 10th largest animal that ever lived
a. The largest animal that ever lived
(larger than any dinosaur!)
Seals and Sea lions get their drinking water from:
a. ponds, streams, or lakes by the ocean
b. from the food they eat
c. the ocean's salt water
b. from the food they eat
What gives coral its beautiful color?
a. pigmented calcium carbonate
b. tiny algae called zooxanthellae
c. All the pretty fish, sea stars, anemones, etc. that live in coral reefs
b. tiny algae called zooxanthellae
Which one of these creatures lives in the deep sea?
a. anglerfish
b. garabaldi
c. coral
d. dolphins
a. anglerfish
On average, how many teeth do sharks have?
a. 50 - 300
b. 1000 - 5000
c. 6,000 - 10,000
a. 50 - 300
(whale sharks have around 3000 teeth!)
Whales and dolphins communicate using:
a. Clicks, whistles, pulsed calls, & echolocation
b. Their vocal chords
c. by blowing bubbles
a. Clicks, whistles, pulsed calls, & echolocation
(echolocation occurs when an animal emits a sound wave that bounces off an object, returning an echo that provides information about the object's distance and size)
What do sea lions have that seals don't have?
a. Ear flaps
b. Fur
c. Lungs
d. Flippers
a. Ear flaps
How do corals get their food?
a. By capturing tiny prey in the water and through the tiny algae (zooxanthellae) that live in the corals' tissue
b. By making their own food
c. They don't need food, only sunlight
a. By capturing tiny prey in the water and through the tiny algae (zooxanthellae) that live in the corals' tissue
More than _____of the ocean is unmapped and unexplored.
a. 80%
b. 60%
c. 20%
d. 5%
a. 80%
The longest living vertebrate (animal with a backbone) on the planet is a shark! What type of shark is it?
a. Greenland shark
b. Hammerhead shark
c. Tiger shark
d. White shark
a. Greenland shark
Which marine mammal is not a dolphin?
a. False killer whale
b. Orca
c. Beluga
d. Bottlenose dolphin
c. Beluga
Sea lions can stay submerged under water for over:
a. an hour
b. 2 hours
c. 15 minutes
d. 30 minutes
d. 30 minutes
Coral reefs make up less than 1% of the ocean, but provide a home to more than how much of the world's marine life?
a. 90%
b. 10%
c. 45%
d. 25%
d. 25%
(over 4,000 different species of fish live in coral reefs!)
Sea spiders belong to the Phylum Arthropoda just like
a. land spiders and insects
b. octopuses
c. sea cucumbers
d. sea stars
a. land spiders and insects
Juvenile White sharks can be found feeding in large groups off the coast of these 2 southern California cities:
a. Los Angeles and Long Beach
b. San Juan Capistrano and Ventura
c. Santa Barbara and San Diego
c. Santa Barbara and San Diego
This whale has the biggest brain of any animal on the planet. (100 extra points if you can guess how much their brains weigh!)
a. Blue whale
b. Right whale
c. Humpback whale
d. Sperm whale
d. Sperm whale
(Their brains weigh a whopping 20 pounds!)
Sea lions and seals are:
a. Cetaceans
b. Pinnipeds
c. Mustelids
d. Ursids
b. Pinnipeds
Cetaceans - whales and dolphins
Mustelids - sea otters
Ursids - Polar bears
The branch or mound that we often call “a coral” is actually made up of thousands of tiny animals called:
a. anemones
b. sea cucumbers
c. polyps
d. molluscs
c. polyps
Do Giant squids exist?
YES!!!
They have the biggest eyes of any animal, and the longest one on record was 43 feet!)