This is a worksheet that you can give your students and kids to understand and learn about sea animals. This is a printable worksheet having 5 pages with different activities to learn with fun. Here we have to identify and match activities, selecting the correct name of sea animals by seeing their pictures, tracing the first word of sea animals for beginners, and word search which are very easy and fun activities that you can provide your students and kids to learn.

Things we will learn:-

  • what are sea animals?
  • List of Sea Animals
  • Varieties of Sea Animals in detail

By hearing the word sea the first thing that comes in our mind is water, shells, corals, sand, fish, sea animals, and many more. So basically what are these sea animals? Let us Understand.

What are Sea Animals? 

Animals that live in water for most or all of it’s lifetime and known as Sea Animals. These animals may breathe with their lungs and gills by extracting the oxygen dissolved in the water. Aquatic animals living in freshwater are known as Freshwater animals and animals living in saltwater such as sea, oceans, etc. are called Marine Animals.

Types of Animals

Vertebrates

Vertebrates possess a backbone and an internal skeleton. They are comparatively larger than Invertebrates. For example:-Mammals, Fish, Reptiles, etc.

Invertebrates

Invertebrates do not possess a backbone or an internal skeleton. They are mostly smaller in size than vertebrates. For Example:-Flatworms, insects, sponges, etc.

List of Sea Animals

  • Sharks
  • Seabirds
  • Turtle(Sea Turtle)
  • Whale
  • Small Fishes
  • Shellfish
  • Jellyfish
  • Starfish
  • Crab
  • Seahorse
  • Dolphins
  • Octopus

Sea Animals in detail

Small fish

  • These fish are small in size and take a breathe using gills and they have fins that help them to swim in water.

Dolphins

  • Dolphins are the most beautiful, intelligent, and friendly sea animals. They are basically mammals and not fish. They have lungs to breathe and the young ones live with their mothers until they turn 3 years old.

Shark

  • A shark is big in size and has a long, slim, and straight body which helps it to swim fast and deep in the sea. Sharks can attack humans but they don’t eat them as humans lack fat.

Whales

  • Whales are the largest animals. Whales are not fish they do not have gills, so they cannot breathe underwater. They must come up to the surface of the water to get air. The air is breathed in and out through their “blowhole,” which is on their back.

Sea Turtle

  • Sea turtle is a creature living on both water and land and has four legs and a long neck. The body is covered with armor. This armor is hard as stone. They have been on the earth far earlier than 220 million years and survived extreme weather changes which removed out even the dinosaurs.

Octopus

  • One of the few animals with blue blood. The octopus looks like a bag and has 8 arms. Octopuses are considered the most intelligent of all the invertebrates.

Seahorse

  • A seahorse is a carnivorous fish with shaving long tail bent neck and it’s head that looks like a horse. Seahorses are very bad swimmers. The male seahorse carries the baby instead of the female seahorses.

Crab

  • Crabs walk the sidewalk. They can swim and have two claws. Crabs have shells and eat plants and animals.

Jelly Fish

  • A jellyfish looks like a jelly. They don’t have a brain, heart, bones, or head, and have soft body structures. They can glow in the dark surface.

Star Fish

  • They have 5 arms some could have about 20 to 40 arms as well and look like a star shape. They are heavy. They can change their gender at any time. The female produces millions of eggs. They can regenerate a body part within a year.

Based on the characteristics and information about sea animals mentioned above you have to solve the following worksheets.

Sea Animals Worksheets for Kindergarten

 

See carefully and think about the characteristics and tick the correct name of sea animals.

 

In this you have to search for words from the word puzzle identify the correct sea animal and write according.

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