*”Types of Fish” Quiz*
1. What part of the body does pectoral refer to?
(Answer at bottom of page 1.)
Pectoral – something related to or coming from the chest area.
2. What kind of fish have web covered fins that are supported by bones or
spines?
(Answer at middle of page 4.)
Ray-finned fish. These have thinner web covered fins that are supported by
bones or spines.
3. What connects the fins of lobe-finned fish to their body?
(Answer at middle of page 5.)
Their fins are connected to their bodies by muscular lobes. (Lobes – a
roundish and flattish part of a body)
4. What are two kinds of holocephali fish?
(Answer at top of page 8.)
The ratfish (also called a ghost shark) and the elephant fish.
5. What percentage of fish are ray-finned fish?
(Answer at top of page 10.)
Ray-finned make up 99% of the fish species currently alive.
6. Mesopelagic fish make their own light. True or False?
(Answer at middle of page 11.)
TRUE!
7. How long is a lanternfish?
(Answer at top of page 12.)
*They’re tiny, only a couple of inches long!*
8. Why is it hard to study Bathypelagic fish?
(Answer at bottom of page 13.)
It’s hard to study anything that lives that deep in the ocean since very
few science submarines can go that far down. That means most of what’s
known is from dead fish that have washed ashore
9. What is the best know type of Bathypelagic fish?
(Answer at top of page 15.)
The best-known of these fish is the deep-sea anglerfish.
10. The anglerfish’s stomach and jaw can stretch to let it eat things up to
twice its own size.
True or False?
(Answer at top of page 16.)
TRUE!
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