WorksheetsJellyfish!
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 15mins
Survive means:
to have good manners & say yes ma'am, no sir
to live
to rise to the surface of the water
to do better than anyone else
A predator is:
an animal that eats other animals
a baseball team
an sea creature
someone who thinks ahead
Attack means:
to put two things together
to eat meat
to try to hurt or kill
The tentacles of a jellyfish have:
sharp fingernails
stingers with venom in them
jelly in them
Transparent means:
the parent of an animal
something you can see through
something that can sting
How do jellyfish move?
they take in water then contract and let it out
they swim with flippers
they catch a ride on a sea doo
How do jellyfish attack prey?
With their teeth
Their tentacles paralyze the prey with venom
They hit them over the head with a dead fish
Nobody is sure why some jellyfish have lights in their bodies but scientists think it MAY be because:
The lights paralyze their prey
Jellyfish like to play flashlight tag
The lights can scare away predators
What is another built-in protection that many jellyfish have?
They have very sharp teeth
They are transparent, so it is hard for predators to see them
They can jump out of the water
True or false: a jellyfish sting can be deadly for humans
true
false
Expand means:
to leave or depart
to hunt another animal for food
to get bigger
to get excited
Absorb (verb) means:
to push water out
to flex muscles in one's stomach
to take in
Do jellyfish stings usually kill people?
no
yes
Contract (a verb, pronounced con-TRACT) means:
to get in touch with someone
to make something smaller or shorter; to get smaller
to annoy or provoke someone or something
Propulsion is:
the force that moves something forward
breathing with gills
an animal with no brain or backbone
Jellyfish are made mostly of:
strawberry jam
water
salt
Which of these do jellyfish NOT have:
tentacles
venom
brains
A carnivore is:
An animal that swims in the sea
An animal that lives in saltwater
An animal that eats other animals
Protect means
to poison
to eat another animal
to keep safe
Venom is:
a poison that a predator uses to attack its prey
lights inside a jellyfish or firefly's body
a creature that lives on the bottom of the sea
Defend means:
to protect against an attack
to swim by taking in water & pushing it out again
to catch a predator
