Imagine you are looking for additional information for your school project about sharks. Match the questions to the answers.

• Объекты 1
  • When were sharks first discovered?
  • How many species of shark are there?
  • What’s the largest shark species?
  • What’s the smallest species of shark?
  • Can sharks hear?
• Объекты 2
  • Evidence gathered from fossilized shark scales found in Siberia and Mongolia date back 420 million years ago to the Silurian Period.
  • The actual figure is still increasing, but there are over 440 species of sharks today. New species of sharks, skates or rays are still being identified almost every other week.
  • The whale shark is the largest shark, and also the largest fish. Adult whale sharks can grow to over 20 meters. Only whales are larger the whale shark.
  • It's a rarely seen deepwater dogfish shark called the dwarf lanternshark. It’s found in the Caribbean Sea and grows to a maximum length of no larger than 20 centimeters.
  • Yes. You won’t see an ear on the outside, but they have a small opening on either side of their heads that leads to an inner ear. Their hearing is so acute that they can hear fish struggling for miles around them.