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Animal Aquatics lesson one quiz

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does it mean if an animal has aquatic mobility?

a)

It can move in air

b)

It can can move in sand

c)

It can sing

d)

It can move in water

2.

What type of aquatic animal can swim?

a)

A benthic

b)

A plankton

c)

A nekton

d)

A fooble

3.

How do benthic aquatic animals travel the waters?

a)

They crawl, slither, scoot or slide

b)

They swim, glide, paddle

c)

They float with the current

d)

They fall to the deep abyss

4.

What are plankton?

a)

Aquatic animals that swim

b)

Aquatic animals that crawl

c)

Aquatic animals that drift with ocean currents

d)

Aquatic animals that jump out of the water

5.

Where can zooplankton be found at night?

a)

Sleeping

b)

The ocean surface

c)

The twilight zone

d)

The midnight zone

6.

What are filter feeders?

a)

Aquatic animals that eat debris and create cleaner water

b)

Aquatic animals that attack eachother

c)

Aquatic animals that pollute the water

d)

Aquatic animals that eat people

7.

Where can you find an estuary?

a)

The head of a river

b)

The middle of the ocean

c)

Where the river meets the ocean at the rivers mouth

d)

In the middle of a river

8.

Which of these are in the correct order?

a)

Continental slope, continental shelf, continental rise, abyssal plain

b)

Abyssal plain, continental shelf, continental slope, continental rise

c)

Continental shelf, continental slope, continental rise, abyssal plain

d)

Continental rise, abyssal plain, continental shelf, continental slope

9.

What are the three zones of the ocean from shallowest to deepest?

a)

Midnight zone, twilight zone, sunlight zone

b)

Sunlight zone, midnight zone, twilight zone

c)

Sunlight zone, twilight zone, midnight zone

d)

Twilight zone, sunlight zone, midnight zone

10.

What are circular currents called?

a)

Gires

b)

Gyres

c)

Guys

d)

Giures

11.

What are the 2 types of plankton?

a)

Zooplankton and phytoplankton

b)

Heroplankton and villian plankton

c)

Fat plankton and skinny plankton

d)

Carnivoreplankton and herbiplankton

12.

What would happen if a human were to go too deep into the ocean?

a)

They would grow gills

b)

They would become a mermaid

c)

They would be crushed by water pressure

d)

They would explode

13.

What causes deep ocean currents?

a)

The amount of fish swimming

b)

Iron and heat

c)

Cold water and salt

d)

Hot water and salt

14.

What is the name of a deep ocean current?

a)

Surface current

b)

Thermohaline

c)

Thermosaline

d)

Thermopotapus

15.

What are the five oceans in the world?

a)

Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern

b)

Pacific, Arctic, Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic, Indian

c)

Indian, Atlantic, Great Berring, Pacific, Arctic

d)

Mediterranean, Pacific, Indian, Atlantic, Arctic

16.

Why are plankton important to all sea life?

a)

They make food for themselves

b)

They eat eachother

c)

They are a good source

d)

They go to the surface at night