THAT SOUNDS A LITTLE FISHY
A quiz about our aquatic friends. It starts easy and will get harder as the questions progress.
QUESTIONS
1. What part of a fish is used to extract oxygen and other gases from water in order to enable them to breathe?
2. What are fish eggs known as?
3. What is the most common fish kept in home aquariums?
4. What type of aquatic creature caused the unfortunate death of naturalist, Steve Irwin?
5. The poisonous Boxfish (also called the trunkfish and cowfish) warns of predators by being a distinctive colour. What is that colour?
6. True or False
Just like counting tree rings to determine age, scientists can age sharks by counting the growth rings on their vertebrae.
7. What kind of fish was Nemo in, ‘Finding Nemo’?
8. What fish is the most consumed in the world according to a UN report?
9. What name is given to the scientific study of fish?
10. What is special about fish species that belong to the group known as Euryhaline?
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ANSWERS
1. What part of a fish is used to extract oxygen and other gases from water in order to enable them to breathe?
GILLS
2. What are fish eggs known as?
ROE
3. What is the most common fish kept in home aquariums?
GOLDFISH (They have also become an invasive pest in parts of the USA after being released into the wild)
4. What type of aquatic creature caused the unfortunate death of naturalist, Steve Irwin?
STINGRAY
5. The poisonous Boxfish (also called the trunkfish and cowfish) warns of predators by being a distinctive colour. What is that colour?
YELLOW
6. True or False
Just like counting tree rings to determine age, scientists can age sharks by counting the growth rings on their vertebrae.
TRUE
7. What kind of fish was Nemo in, ‘Finding Nemo’?
CLOWN FISH
8. What fish is the most consumed in the world according to a UN report?
TUNA
9. What name is given to the scientific study of fish?
ICHTHYOLOGY
10. What is special about fish species that belong to the group known as Euryhaline?
THEY CAN SURVIVE IN BOTH FRESH AND SALT WATER