The Moray Eel Close Up: teacher key

Moray Eels, grade 8 edition, written for 8th grade. How a moray eel looks, where it lives and how big it grows, how it moves and eats, and how its life begins.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What does the yellow slime on a green moray's skin do?
   • It makes the moray look green and helps protect it from parasites (answer)
   • It makes the moray swim faster
   • It helps the moray see at night
2. What does a moray have in its throat?
   • A pair of fins
   • A shell
   • A second set of jaws (answer)
3. What do cleaner shrimps do for a green moray?
   • Feed it
   • Clean it (answer)
   • Carry it
4. What can a moray not do that many fish do to catch prey?
   • Hide in a crevice
   • Pull in prey with strong suction (answer)
   • Swim backward
5. What is a moray larva?
   • A kind of reef rock
   • A type of tooth
   • A see-through, leaf-shaped young moray (answer)

Words

• crevice: narrow crack
• nostrils: nose openings
• suction: pulling force
• larva: young form
• anguilliform: eel-like swimming