Coastal Match the marine creatures to the clues in this seashore quiz!
QUEST!
Yee-ha,
I’m riding the waves!
Common brittlestar
1 Watch out, this animal might steal your
chips! Scientists in Cornwall have found that they actually prefer food that has been handled by humans. They also eat fish, young birds, eggs, small mammals, insects, fruit and dead animals.
2
You might think this fish would gallop around but it prefers to cling to seaweed and seagrass with its long tail. It doesn’t have teeth so it sucks up its prey of shrimp and plankton. Common prawn
Long-snouted seahorse
Just call me a rock star!
3
When the tide comes in, this lump of red jelly transforms – its tentacles reach out to sting passing prey, including crabs, shrimp and small fish. They will fight off others to defend their patch of rock.
I’ve got thousands of kids to carry!
4 This super-sensitive animal will detach
its arms if disturbed! It scavenges on dead sea creatures but can also raise its long arms to catch plankton and other tiny bits of food floating by.
Puffin
Nom nom!
I love to float in the sunlight! 14 whizzpopbang.com
Bladderwrack seaweed
