Scalloped hammerhead: Built to Survive

Question 1 · multiple choice

A camera trap is being set for a Scalloped hammerhead. Which habitat description gives it the best chance of success?

warm coastal seas, seamounts, and deep offshore water large lakes, deltas, lagoons, and sheltered coasts deep flowing rivers with sandbanks woodland edges, fields, and moist ground under stones

Question 2 · multiple choice

A Scalloped hammerhead follows its usual feeding pattern. Which food combination should it seek?

fish, crayfish, frogs, and other aquatic animals fish, squid, crustaceans, and rays lichens, grasses, sedges, leaves, and fungi mainly jellyfish and other soft drifting animals

Question 3 · multiple choice

When should a documentary crew expect the most natural activity from a Scalloped hammerhead?

active by day mostly active at night often hunts separately at night after schooling by day forages slowly at any time depending on tide and food

Question 4 · multiple choice

Which set of movements belongs to a Scalloped hammerhead?

flies between feeding areas and hangs acrobatically while building climbs and leaps among leaves over water moves using hundreds of water-powered tube feet swims with a tall dorsal fin and wide sweeping turns

Question 5 · multiple choice

Which body feature gives a Scalloped hammerhead a practical survival advantage?

the broad head spreads electrical sensors and improves turning control dark skin absorbs heat and salt glands sneeze excess salt from the nose chromatophores, reflective cells, and skin muscles create rapid patterns and texture tails interfere with bat echolocation and can draw attacks away from the body

Question 6 · multiple choice

Which family-life detail is accurate for a Scalloped hammerhead?

eggs overwinter inside a foamy protective case called an ootheca gives birth to live young in shallow nursery areas usually one young is born and sheltered inside a burrow lays one egg that hatches in a temporary pouch

Question 7 · multiple choice

Which social clue belongs to a Scalloped hammerhead?

mostly solitary, communicating through scent, marks, and calls forms loose groups and may mix with grazing mammals forms large daytime schools around some islands and seamounts gathers in large seasonal spawning groups

Question 8 · multiple choice

Which food-web connection correctly involves a Scalloped hammerhead?

links aquatic food webs and signals healthy connected waterways moves nutrients and shapes tundra vegetation through grazing controls jellyfish and transports nutrients across ocean basins regulates mid-level predators and prey in marine food webs

Question 9 · multiple choice

A Scalloped hammerhead cannot simply disappear. Which combination helps it avoid or survive danger?

uses schooling, speed, and sensory awareness uses size, bill jabs, and group vigilance retreats to deep water and uses teeth and tail if trapped fires a hot pulsed chemical spray aimed from the abdomen

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A scalloped hammerhead wide-set eyes provide a broad field of view including strong depth overlap ahead.

True False