Aquarium Quiz

Let’s see how well you were listening during your time at the aquarium!
1. What were the animals in the enclosure in the education room?

2. What is it called when animals change their colour to copy their environment?

3. What is it called when animals are grouped together?

4. What are the 3 types of adaptation?

5. Why do animals want to stay alive?

6. Name 5 vertebrates and 5 invertebrates found in the aquarium?

7. Why doesn’t an octopus have bones?

8. What does the acronym FARMBirds mean?

9. What is the name of the animal found in the oceanarium foyer?

10. Name 2 types of shark found in the big tank?

11. What is an adaptation?

12. Why would a fish have a long slender shape?

13. Where does a fish with an up-pointing mouth live?

14. Draw the tail a slow moving fish would have?

15. Name a fish that has a specialist tail?

16. Approximately how many species of fish live worldwide?

17. Name 3 different ways a fish adapts for its habitat?

18. What is one difference between an Auckland and Dunedin habitat?

19. What are the 3 groups of fish called?

20. Which fish holds the eggs in their mouth?

21. Where are water dragons from?