, 16 August 2023
Some of these animals might sound familiar, but I bet they’re not what you’re expecting!
Sea mice are actually wide segmented worms! They got their name from their mouse-like appearance as they are brown, bronze, black or yellow in colour and are covered in hair-like setae. Their outer bristles are iridescent, which means they shine blue, green and gold under light.
Sea pigs are deep-sea sea cucumbers and are often found in large groups, gathered around a food source on the ocean floor. They have been found as deep as 6000 metres!
False. Snailfish have a scaleless, jelly-like body making them look like shell-less snails. One type of snailfish has the record for deepest fish ever recorded – 8,336 metres in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench, south of Japan!
Sea angels are not herbivores! Despite their name, sea angels are predators. They typically feed on other swimming snails, using finger-like tentacles and hooked appendages to catch and pull in their prey.
Sea pens are related to soft corals and look like old-fashioned quill pens. Each sea pen is made up of multiple individuals (called ‘polyps’) that all work together to survive. They can be found throughout the world’s oceans and feed on plankton.
Congratulations! You are a real science whiz!
Oh dear! Better brush up before the next quiz!
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17 August, 2023 at 7:12 pm
#4. Sea angels are small marine snails with tentacles on their head. Which of the following is incorrect?
They’re herbivores that only eat plant pollen that falls into the sea
They have wing-like structures for swimming
They have transparent bodies
They have no shell
Despite their name, sea angels are pretty good predators! They typically feed on other swimming snails, using finger-like tentacles and hooked appendages to catch and pull in their prey.
Apparently its the first answer, but do they eat pollen or snails?
18 August, 2023 at 8:19 am
Yes, the first answer is incorrect because sea angels are actually highly carnivorous (so no plant pollen). Instead, sea angels almost exclusively eat swimming snails. When they find a swimming snail, the tentacles on their head grab the prey and then they use hook-like appendages to pull the prey out of its shell and into their stomach.
18 August, 2023 at 10:43 am
I’ve tweaked the answer slightly to clarify – the question is looking for the one lie, not the only true fact.
18 August, 2023 at 12:15 pm
No chance of supplying pictures with the answers?
18 August, 2023 at 1:19 pm
I don’t know if our quiz plugin can do that!
here are a few links to pictures:
Sea mice:
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/marine/worms/sea-mouse
Sea pigs:
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2017/10/sea-pigs-are-the-aliens-of-the-sea/
Snailfish:
https://theconversation.com/snailfish-how-we-found-a-new-species-in-one-of-the-oceans-deepest-places-103003
Sea angels:
https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/sea-angel
Question 5 (not spoiling the answer)
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/4f6b73c1-38fc-46cf-a0cb-8cfba5bb94dc