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12 Cards in this Set
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1. Usually the eat smaller fish, but many cases of "sharkbite" are probably caused by this sharp-toothed fish.
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b. Barracudas, with their sharp teeth, may strike at bright or moving objects, including people.
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2. They may grow up to 15 feet long and weigh as much as 1,000 pounds.
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a. Swordfish, with their sharp beaks, may be long and heavy.
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1. Some barracudas are large, ferocious, slender fish that will strike at anything bright or moving.
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b. Barracudas, with their sharp teeth, may strike at bright or moving objects, including people.
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2. Swordfish have long, sharp beaks.
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b. Swordfish have long, sharp beaks.
or a. Swordfish, with their sharp beaks, may be long and heavy. |
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3. Puffers, also called swellfish,inflate their bodies with air or water until danger has passed.
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a. Puffers inflate their bodies temporarily to avoid danger.
or b. Puffers are also called swellfish |
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3. When the danger passes, they quickly deflate.
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a. Puffers inflate their bodies temporarily to avoid danger.
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14-1 Sunfish, or bream, are small members of the sunfish family that are easy to catch.
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b. Sunfish are easy to catch and vary in color.
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14-1 One of the largest, the bluegill, usually has faint bars with dark lobes reaching back from the gill covers.
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c. The bluegill, longear, and pumpkinseed are all members of the sunfish family.
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14-1 The longear sunfish has long flaps that extend from its gill covers and has bright orange and blue skin.
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c. The bluegill, longear, and pumpkinseed are all members of the sunfish family.
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14-1 Other sunfish may be reddish or greenish.
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14-1 The pumpkinseed, or common sunfish, usually has blue and orange stripes on its cheeks and a red spot on the back of its gill covers.
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c. The bluegill, longear, and pumpkinseed are all members of the sunfish family.
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3. They may swell up to three times their normal size.
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c. Puffers may inflate themselves to three times their normal size.
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