Sunny the Shark by Remy Lai

Some sharks and Pilot fish and Remora fish have a symbiotic relationship. This means they get along well and are helpful to each other.

How do Sunny and the Pilot fish demonstrate this symbiotic relationship?

• The Pilot fish become Sunny's companions and Sunny lets the Pilot fish swim next to her without harming them.

• Sunny catches food & shares it with the Pilot fish. The Pilot fish clean her teeth after every feeding.

• Sunny scares away the Pilot fish's predators, while the Pilot fish clean Sunny's teeth & remove her parasites.

• All 3 answers are correct

Why did the humans trap and catch Sunny out of the ocean?

• The humans tagged and released her for research.

• The humans were fishing and wanted to catch her for food.

• The humans wanted to catch her to make sure she wasn't injured from their fishing lines.

As Sunny swims around hungry, she thinks she sees a squid tentacle and mistakes it for food.

What was the pollution in the ocean

that Sunny mistakes for food?

• It was a tangled piece of rope from a fishing net

• It was a plastic ring from a balloon

• It was a strip of seaweed

Why did the "barnacle necklace" become a problem for Sunny

after a year passed?

• The barnacle necklace made it difficult for her to swim.

• The necklace became too tight around her because she grew.

• The barnacle necklace made it difficult for her to hunt for food.

• All 3 answers are correct

True or False: A predator is an animal that catches another animal for food.

• True

• False

How does Sunny the Shark get her name?

• The shark loves to swim at the ocean's surface where the sun can warm her. The other fish nickname her Sunny.

• The Pilot fish see the shark dragging around a sunny yellow balloon and name her Sunny.

• The fish wanted to tease her by giving her a bright, friendly name even though the shark is a "fearsome predator".

How is Sunny freed from the plastic ring around her body?

• The Pilot fish were finally able to nibble through the plastic ring that had begun break.

• Because Sunny couldn't hunt well with it around her fin, Sunny lost weight and the ring eventually slid off.

• The humans who had tagged her a couple of years before finally located her and cut the ring off.

What happens when Sunny encounters the giant, red squid?

• Sunny tries to bite the squid because she was starving.

• The squid catches Sunny tight in its tentacles.

• Her Pilot fish and barnacle friends encourage her to fight for her life.

• All 3 answers are correct.

True or False: The story of Sunny, the Oceanic White Tip shark was actually based on a true story of a Porbeagle shark named Destiny.

• True

• False

True or False: When plastic pollution get washed away or tossed into the ocean, it doesn't impact the ocean environment or the ocean animals.

• True

• False