| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| What coral reef is so large that it can be seen from space? | Great Barrier Reef. | 79%
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| Which evolved first: stingrays or groupers? | Stingrays. | 71%
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| How many gills do most sharks have? | 5 | 70%
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| Are eels fish or reptiles? | Fish. | 66%
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| Is the above warm blooded or cold blooded? | Warm Blooded | 65%
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| This is the heaviest animal alive today. | Blue Whale. | 63%
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| This powerful mackerel shark is most famous for appearing in Jaws. | Great White Shark | 58%
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| Sharks and rays’ skeletons are most made of this, rather than bone. | Cartilage | 51%
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| The above biome has this sea urchin-eating mammal as a keystone species. | Sea Otter. | 38%
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| What phyla do jellyfish and anemones belong to? | Cnidaria | 32%
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| This global warming induced process harms coral by killing zooxanthellae. | Coral Bleaching | 31%
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| What is the scientific name for the Ocean Sunfish? | Mola Mola | 31%
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| This term refers to a coral reef surrounding a lagoon. | Atoll. | 23%
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| Monterrey Bay holds the largest of these. | Kelp Forest. | 22%
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| What do nautiluses have that most cephalopods lack? | Shells. | 20%
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| What is the main food source in the deep ocean? | Marine snow. | 17%
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| Which fish has the highest proportion of brain mass to body mass. | Manta Ray | 14%
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| Mussels and barnacles inhabit this coastal biome marked by fluctuating sea levels. | Intertidal Zone | 13%
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| What do crabeater seals eat? | Krill. | 12%
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| About how heavy can a leatherback sea turtle get? | 2000 lbs. | 10%
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| About how many Mediterranean monk seals are left, as of 2023? | Less than 700 | 9%
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| This endangered species is also called the Napoleonfish. | Humphead Wrasse. | 7%
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| Give the common name of Architeuthis dux. | Giant Squid | 6%
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| Who wrote Jaws? | Peter Benchley | 6%
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| Hydrothermal vents are often filled with these 6 ft worms. | Giant Tube Worms. | 5%
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| All catfish belong to this order. | Siluriformes | 5%
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| This royal fish, described in 1787 off the coast of Japan, mostly eats sponges. | Emperor Angelfish | 4%
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| What does the constellation Volans represent? | Flying fish | 4%
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| This British naval officer discovered Antarctica. | Sir James Ross | 3%
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| This tiny vertebrate, which lives in the above, is the smallest vertebrate in terms of mass. | Stout Infantfish | 2%
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