Great White Sharks! Trivia Quiz

Answer: True

People of the Solomon Islands sacrificed pigs to the ocean-dwelling beasts. Inhabitants of Hawaii have also worshiped sharks, believing they could actually become human.

Answer: Pups

Upon being born, a pup immediately flees its mother and siblings because it may be seen as prey to them. Although a great white will likely be at the top of the oceanic food chain throughout its entire life, a pup avoids predators bigger than itself - including other great whites - if it is comes anywhere close to completing its first year of life, an achievement not very many live up to.

Answer: False

Great whites are solitary creatures who infrequently participate alongside one another in attacks. Sometimes when more than one acknowledges an animal in agony, the sharks rush to get the grub. During the attack, they may bite and maim each another in order to get the food more swiftly, prompting the eating of the injured shark. Great whites have been seen working together to move an injured whale out to deeper waters, but as a general rule, they are solitary hunters.

Answer: False

From time to time, it may be difficult to think of them as fish. While most fish have skeletons made of bone, sharks are cartilaginous, meaning their skeletons are made of cartilage - the same substance human ears and noses are composed of. And fish lay eggs, but shark eggs hatch inside mother, who then gives live birth. Despite the anomalies, they are fish, not mammals.

Answer: Remora

Remoras use sucker-like disks to attach to sharks, which aren't the only creatures remoras fasten themselves to. Whales and turtles have also been known to have such rapports with remora fish.

Answer: ...roll their eyes back into their eye sockets.

Due to this, great whites don't actually see their prey just before the kill.

Answer: Breach

Though this occasionally occurs to a human victim, it is extremely rare. Contrary to popular belief, sharks are not bloodthirsty killers that enjoy eating people. There are very few human deaths per year as a result of sharks. People die more often of lightning strikes.

Answer: All are correct

Great white sharks have a sharp sense of smell, excellent eyesight, and superb hearing. The nostrils of their snout are used solely for smelling, not breathing. Scientists once believed that sharks' eyesight was very poor, but recent studies have disproved that notion because sharks are more sensitive to light than humans, making nighttime hunting much easier. Sharks use their ears for vibration detection, allowing them to locate their prey with little difficulty.

Answer: False

Great whites have dark topsides, and nearly white bottoms. This makes them hard to see from both above and below. From underneath, a shark's pale underside blends in with sky-lit water. From above, the dark upper half blends into the black depths of the sea. Their backs can be dark gray, blue, or olive green.

Answer: Sea otters

Some scientists hypothesize that great whites don't like feasting upon sea otters because they taste bad. Headless and mangled otters frequently wash up on shore with fragments of shark teeth in their wounds. Scientists believe that oils that keep otters warm taste bad to the sharks, although sharks have been known to feast upon them anyway.