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1. WEL COME NAME:- S.KAVYA CLASS:- IX A/S SUBJECT:- BIOLAGY TOPIC:- FACTS ABOUT FISH

2. HOW MANY KINDS OF Altogether there are about 21,000 kinds of fish. FISH ARE THERE? eels ,jaws • One small group, called lamprey eel jaws at all and suck in food with just their mouth. shark • The second group is very old. These fish don’t have real bones inside them but only cartilage which is softer the bone. This group includes sharks. • The third are goldfish,bullheads,and tuna are some of the fish in this group. Goldfish

3. WHAT IS FISH COLOUR? • Different fishes • can look amazingly different yellow • Fishes are every color you can imagine--red,green,yellow,purple, orange,blue and brown. purple • Some have stripes,some have spots, others have fancy patterns. stripes

4. CAN ANY FISH LIVE OUT OF WATER • Yes,a few fish can live out of water -some for hours,are days,are years! • Mudskippers hop around on land and even climb trees.so do climbing perch. • They have a special-chamber in their gills to help them breathe. Mudskippers • Some fish have gills- and lungs,too!Its lungs help the lungfish spend a lot of time on land. In summer.While it is sleeping, the lung fish breathes air through a little.

5. HOW CAN FISH BREATHE IN WATER? • Fish need to breathe the gas called oxygen in order to live. • Oxygen is in the air and in the water,too. • They have gills.gills can take oxygen from water. Gills • Then the water goes out of the fish’s body through openings behind the gills.

6. CAN FISH LIVE IN A FROZEN POND? • If the pond is frozen solid from top to bottom,then fish can’t live there • This sheet of ice has water below it, where fish can live. • They usually stay near the bottom of the pond,where the temperature is warmer. Frozen • only the surface water gats frozen the water in the bottom is not frozen. So the fish can live there.

7. DO FISH SLEEP? • Most fish do sleep-but with their eyes open!fish can’t close their eyes,be cause they have no eyelids. • Many fish lie on their side or belly at the bottom of the pond, river, ocean,or aquarium where they live. Sleeping fish • The fish that don’t sleep take rests.They just stop swimming and stay in one place for a while.

8. WHAT DO FISH EAT? • Because so many other water creatures are looking for food, too. • They eat insects,worms, and water animals,including other fish. • Some even eat their own babies. • There are fish can eat plants .many cat just plants.

9. CAN FISH MAKE SOUNDS? • A few can. A fish called the croaker make a deep, grumpy-sounding gar-rumph. The sound is made in the fish’s belly and is a lot like the noise a bullfrog makes. Cat fish • The grunting catfish makes a sound,too-but only when you take it out of water.

10. WHAT IS THE SMALLEST FISH • The pygmy goby is the smallest a dolt fish. • It hardly ever grows longer then. pygmy goby • Third of an inch, which is only this long: .

11. Which is the biggest fish? • The whale shark is the biggest fish.it can grow up to 59 feet long ,and it can weigh up to 15 toes-more than twice as much as an african elephant! 2 • Fortunately for the other fish, the whale shark eats only plankton (plank-tom). Plankton is made of tiny,tiny bits of living matter that float in the sea. Whale shark

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