MSB: Sink or Swim

Can you name all 8 of Ms. Frizzle's students (without peeking at the book)?

Where did Ms. Frizzle take her class for their "winter vacation"?

• They travelled to the frozen Artic and helped save the Aleutian shield fern.

• They travelled to the Florida Keys helped protect the endangered Florida (coral) Reef

• They travelled to Hawaii and helped a Bluestripe Snapper Fish (and Wanda!) escape a hungry shark.

True or False: The underwater, rock-like coral reef system is actually a colony of colorful plants that provide other small sea animals with safety from predators for

• True

• False

The classmates explored underwater in individual "fishmobiles" that were designed with the same type of fins that most fish have.

What are the names of the 3 fish fins?

• Denial, Pectoral and Tailfin

• Dorsal, Punctual and Tallfin

• Dorsal, Pectoral and Tailfin

When Wanda activated the "swimmer sense" button what happened to her fishmobile?

• The fishmobile released sound waves (sonar) to detect how close it was to the shark.

• The fishlink (lateral line) turned on and synchronized the fishmobile to Becca Blue's swimming pattern.

• The fishmobile turned invisible so the shark couldn't find it.

What type of shark chased the school of fish, Becca Blue and the 8 classmates' fishmobiles around?

• Blacktip Reef shark

• Great White shark

• Hammerhead shark

According to Dorothy Ann's research, sharks can have up to how many rows of teeth?

• five

• fifty

• fifteen

Collective nouns provide a cool name for large groups of animals. For example a group of insects is called a "swarm" and a group of birds is called a "flock".

What is a group of fish called?

• a School

• a Herd

• a Pack

How did little Becca Blue (the bluestripe snapper fish) trick the big, toothy shark predator?

• Becca swam in sync with her school so they looked like one giant fish. Then they scattered to confuse the shark.

• Becca hid from the shark in the coral reef until the frustrated shark swam away.

• Becca swam along with the classmates' fishmobiles which blocked her from the view of the shark, until it swam away.

True or False: In the Hawaiian language, "Aloha" means both "Hello" and "Goodbye".

• True

• False

• N/A