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WorksheetsSupercostudent 100 Questions
Total questions: 100
Worksheet time: 50mins
When should you avoid swimming in the ocean?
Dawn, dusk, or at night as this is when sharks are most likely to feed.
At noon when sharks are the hungriest.
Why should you leave shiny jewelry at home?
Sharks may mistake it for the flash of a fish's scales.
Sharks like to eat jewelry.
Great white sharks can detect a single drop of blood in how many gallons of water?
10 Gallons
30 Gallons
25 Gallons
Giant manta rays have a wingspan of more than how many feet?
3 feet
20 feet
60 feet
True or False - Manta rays are harmless to humans?
True - Unlike stingrays, manta rays don't have barbs or stingers at the end of their tails, rendering them harmless to swimmers and divers.
False - They are vey dangerous to both humans and other animals.
True or False - Manta rays have the largest brains of any species of fish. They can recognize their own reflection, and show signs of self awareness.
True - they have scored high on intelligence tests.
False - they have scored very low on intelligence test.
What are some areas of the world that manta rays have been found?
Only in Arctic areas
Only in tropical areas
Tropical, subtropical, temperate oceans, all across the globe!
Why are manta rays under threat of extinction?
They are hunted for their gills.
Poor fishing practices.
They are not hunted.
They are hunted for their gills and poor fishing practices.
Where does "runoff" come from that reaches the ocean and kills marine life?
Farming
Sewage
Chemical use
All of the above
What is the area of the ocean that is depleted of oxygen and causes marine animals to suffocate?
A live zone
A dead zone
A free zone
What are some nutrients that are added to help grow crops, but eventually end up in the ocean?
Nitrogen and phosphorus
Carbon
Acid Rain
What would you see in a dead zone?
Nothing
The water is likely free of fish, shrimp and other species. You might see hundreds to thousands of dead fish on the beach.
About how large is the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico?
3,000 square miles
4,500 square miles
8,500 square miles
1,000 square miles
What waterway do the chemicals travel down to the Gulf of Mexico?
The Delaware river
The Mississippi river
The Nile river
What can you do to help shrink the dead zone?
Support local farms that do not use excessive chemicals on their farms.
Use as much plastic as you can and never recycle it.
What are some large cities that have banned the plastic bag from stores?
Seattle
San Francisco
Dallas
Boston
When were plastic bags created?
1910's
1950's
1960's
How many plastic bags are used each year?
FOUR hundred
FOUR thousand
FOUR million
FOUR trillion
Plastic bags are used for an average of how many minutes?
3 minutes
1 hour
12 minutes
30 minutes
How many years does it take to break down a plastic bag in a landfill?
2,000 - 3,000 years
500 - 1,000 years
10,000 years
What are plastic bags made from?
Plastic.
Oil - releasing their emissions into our air is contributing to climate change.
Wood
Americans use about 100 billion plastic bags every year, which requires how many gallons of oil?
1 million
5 million
12 million
30 million
Of the millions of plastic bags we use each year, what percentage is actually recycled?
1%
3%
7%
How many marine animals are killed each year by plastic bags?
10,000 animals
15,000 animals
50,000 animals
100,000 animals
True or False - paper coffee cups and plastic straws are recyclable?
True - They are recyclable and should always be recycled
False - Coffee cups have a plastic lining and plastic straws are too small for recycling centers.
What are some ways you can use less coffee cups and straws?
Use a thermos
Reusable metal straws
Bamboo straws
There is no way to use less coffee cups and straws
True or False - recycling items need to be washed/cleaned first?
True - Yes always clean them!
False - They do not need to be perfectly clean, just make sure there isn't a ton of left overs or liquid inside.
Where can you recycle plastic bags?
Our school (ACME) has a recycling program
Grocery Stores
You can't recycle plastic bags
How many plastic straws are used every day in the USA?
About 20 million
About 100 million
About 500 million
About 1 trillion
According to a new study, by what year, will there be more plastic than fish in the ocean?
2025
2050
2075
2080
What can you do to help protect the ocean and keep it clean?
Avoid single use plastic
reusable products
Never litter
Clean up the beach and give support
Sharks do not have a single bone in their body, what do they have?
Cartilage
Muscle only
Unlike humans who rely on their limited 5 senses, sharks can rely on another sense called:
Telekinesis
Flight
Electroreception
What sharks are considered to be the trashcans of the sea?
Hammer Head Shark
Great White Shark
Tiger Sharks
What is the one type of shark that can live in fresh water?
Bull Shark
Tiger Shark
Great White Shark
Great white sharks aren’t always at the top of the food chain, what has been known in recent years to be a predator of the great white?
Dolphin
Other sharks
Orca Whales
Seals
Fossil evidence has shown that sea turtles once shared the planet with what?
Llamas
Aliens
Dinosaurs
How long have sea turtles been on our Earth?
100 years
About 110 million years.
3,000 years
What is the largest species of sea turtles?
Leatherback turtle- they can grow to 7 ft in length and weigh more than 2,000 pounds.
Redback turtle- they can only grow to 3 ft in weight 1,000 pounds
There are seven species of sea turtle, how many of these are considered endangered?
1 of 7 are endangered
3 of 7 are endangered
6 of 7 are endangered
The frilled shark looks more like an eel than a shark. How many teeth does it have?
300 teeth, in 25 rows!
100 teeth in 4 rows!
This shark has pinkish colored translucent skin and has a long snout that has protruding jaws filled with teeth.
Penguin Shark
Goblin Shark
Wizard Shark
This shark’s long snout is covered in sharp teeth, which cut into their prey like this common household tool.
Sawshark
Hammershark
Screwdriver shark
Why are the hammerhead’s eyes so far off it’s body?
To see all around them except directly in front!
To see only directly in front of them!
Hammerheads often travel in schools, of how many?
100 + travel together
600 + travel together
In the summer large schools of hammerheads travel to a new location, what is this called?
Hibernation
Migration
A food chain
The living parts of an ecosystem are _______________________
Abiotic
Biotic
Migration
All the living and nonliving things in an area interact to form an ____.
Environment
Habitat
Migration
An ecosystem that has many kinds of living things has a lot of _____.
Hibernations
Specialty
Diversity
Several kinds of plants and animals living in the same place form a _.
Community
Migration
Hibernation
Trash in a stream is one kind of ____.
Pollution
Hibernation
Recycling
Non living factors in an ecosystem are ________ factors.
Biotic
Abiotic
An ___ includes all the living and non living things in an area.
Ecosystem
Environment
Landform
What is an example of an abiotic factor? (non living)
Rabbit
Snake
Cold Temperatures
What is an example of a biotic factor?
Plants
Mushrooms
Air
Animals
Why do people replant trees in an area that has been logged?
Habitat restoration
Habitat destruction
An animal that eats other living things is a _____.
Consumer
Producer
Migration
Nutrients would be lost without this natural recycler?
Producer
Decomposer
Second Level Consumer
The animals at the top of a food chain are always ___.
Prey
Predator
Producer
The role an animal plays in it’s ecosystem is it’s __.
Niche
Habitat
Prey
Animals that eat both producers and consumers are __.
Carnivores
Herbivores
Omnivores
Herbivores and omnivores both eat ___.
Consumers
Habitat
Producers
A food web shoes relationships among living things more accurately than a ___.
Energy Pyramid
Food Chain
Diorama
The loss of energy along a food chain is shown in an ____.
Energy Pyramid
Food Chain
Food Web
What does every food chain need?
Darkness
Sunlight
Which term includes herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores?
Producer
Consumer
Penguin
How much energy is used at each level and NOT passed on in an energy pyramid?
50 %
90 %
10 %
What do herbivores eat?
Plants
Animals
Plastic
What are robins, which eat worms and insects?
Herbivore
Carnivore
Herbivore
Antelopes are herbivores. Are they also considered prey or predator
Producer
Predator
Prey
What is the first organism in a food chain?
Herbivore
Carnivore
Producer
What do the three R’s stand for?
recycle, reduce and reuse
Roses, Rock, and Roll
Which of the three R’s means to only use the things you need?
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
Which of the three R’s means to turn something like a shoebox into something else?
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
Each ton of recycled paper can save how many trees?
100,000 trees
17 trees
160 trees
Recycling one aluminum can saves how much energy?
Enough to watch TV for three hours
Enough to watch TV for 80 hours
How many plastic bottles are used each day in the USA?
4 million plastic bottles
1 million plastic bottles
60 million plastic bottles
What is the most common recycled product?
Plastic
Paper
Aluminum
How can you use a garden to recycle?
Composting
Deforestation
What percentage of the earth is covered by oceans?
20 %
70%
100%
What is the largest ocean on Earth?
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
How much of the ocean have we explored?
100%
50%
5%
How much pollution enters the ocean each year?
1.4 billion pounds of trash
1 million pounds of trash
3 thousand pounds of trash
What is the most common pollutant in the ocean?
Plastics
Paper
Oil
What is the biggest source of pollution in the ocean?
Land sources- oil, dirt, farms, cars.
Air sources
How many seabirds are killed each year from pollution?
Over 1 million each year
Over 40 million each year
Over 100 million each year
Enough plastic is thrown away each year to circle the earth how many times?
One times
Three times
Four times
The average American throws away about how many pounds of plastic a year?
185 pounds.
300 pounds.
600 pounds.
How long does it take plastic to break down?
500-1000 years.
3 - 5 Years
1.1 Million - 3 Million
What can you use instead of plastic bags?
Nothing
Cloth Bags
What is an example of a renewable resource?
Wind Energy
Solar Energy
Nuclear Energy
Geothermal
What is it called when you protect resources and use them wisely?
Conservation
Destroy
Hibernate
Metal, paper, plastic and glass can be recycled?
True
False
What type of resources are fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas?
Renewable
Nonrenewable
Soil and fossil fuels are ___ because of how long it takes to form.
Nonrenewable
Renewable
Antarctica contains ____ of the worlds drinkable water.
10%
50%
70%
in 2012, the hole in the ozone layer was _______ than it had ever been in 10 years!
Bigger
The same
Smaller
In what year was the first Earth Day celebrated?
1920
1970
2010
What is the purpose of studying for this activity?
Learn more about our impact on our planet
There was no point
Did you learn at least one fun fact you didn’t know before?
Yes
No
