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Hint	Answer	% Correct
What coral reef is so large that it can be seen from space?	Great Barrier Reef.	85%
This is the heaviest animal alive today.	Blue Whale.	71%
Are eels fish or reptiles?	Fish.	71%
Which evolved first: stingrays or groupers?	Stingrays.	71%
How many gills do most sharks have?	5	68%
Is the above warm blooded or cold blooded?	Warm Blooded	62%
Sharks and rays’ skeletons are most made of this, rather than bone.	Cartilage	59%
This powerful mackerel shark is most famous for appearing in Jaws.	Great White Shark	50%
This global warming induced process harms coral by killing zooxanthellae.	Coral Bleaching	35%
The above biome has this sea urchin-eating mammal as a keystone species.	Sea Otter.	35%
What phyla do jellyfish and anemones belong to?	Cnidaria	29%
What is the main food source in the deep ocean?	Marine snow.	26%
What is the scientific name for the Ocean Sunfish?	Mola Mola	26%
This term refers to a coral reef surrounding a lagoon.	Atoll.	24%
About how many Mediterranean monk seals are left, as of 2023?	Less than 700	21%
What do crabeater seals eat?	Krill.	18%
Who wrote Jaws?	Peter Benchley	18%
Monterrey Bay holds the largest of these.	Kelp Forest.	15%
Which fish has the highest proportion of brain mass to body mass.	Manta Ray	15%
Give the common name of Architeuthis dux.	Giant Squid	12%
What do nautiluses have that most cephalopods lack?	Shells.	12%
About how heavy can a leatherback sea turtle get?	2000 lbs.	9%
This endangered species is also called the Napoleonfish.	Humphead Wrasse.	9%
Mussels and barnacles inhabit this coastal biome marked by fluctuating sea levels.	Intertidal Zone	9%
All catfish belong to this order.	Siluriformes	9%
This royal fish, described in 1787 off the coast of Japan, mostly eats sponges.	Emperor Angelfish	6%
What does the constellation Volans represent?	Flying fish	6%
Hydrothermal vents are often filled with these 6 ft worms.	Giant Tube Worms.	6%
This British naval officer discovered Antarctica.	Sir James Ross	6%
This tiny vertebrate, which lives in the above, is the smallest vertebrate in terms of mass.	Stout Infantfish	6%