Salmon Quiz: questions and answers
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1. Where does the term "salmon" come from?
Latin
2. Where is the Salmo salar native to?
Atlantic Ocean
3. Which parasite is commonly found in the flesh of salmonids?
Henneguya salminicola
4. Who gave the Atlantic salmon its scientific binomial name?
Carl Linneus
5. How many kilometers do chinook and sockeye salmon from travel to reproduce?
1400 km
6. When do most salmon species migrate?
During the fall
7. Most salmon are anadromous, what does it mean?
Fish migrate from the sea up into fresh water to spawn
8. Which of the following is the largest of all Pacific Salmon?
Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
9. Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) are also known in the US as:
Red salmon
10. What is the Salmon of Knowledge?
A creature from Irish mythology