Salmon Quiz: questions and answers

1. Where does the term "salmon" come from?

Greek

French

Latin

2. Where is the Salmo salar native to?

Pacific Ocean

Caribbean Sea

Atlantic Ocean

3. Which parasite is commonly found in the flesh of salmonids?

Myxobolus cerebralis

Lophopus crystallinus

Henneguya salminicola

4. Who gave the Atlantic salmon its scientific binomial name?

Carl Linneus

Conrad Gesner

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

5. How many kilometers do chinook and sockeye salmon from travel to reproduce?

1400 km

14 km

140 km

6. When do most salmon species migrate?

During the spring

During the winter

During the fall

7. Most salmon are anadromous, what does it mean?

Fish migrate from the sea up into fresh water to spawn

Fish migrate from fresh water down into the sea to spawn

Fish weighs more than 100kg

8. Which of the following is the largest of all Pacific Salmon?

Chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)

Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)

Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)

9. Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) are also known in the US as:

Silver salmon

Humpies

Red salmon

10. What is the Salmon of Knowledge?

A creature from Greek mythology

A creature from Irish mythology

A creature from Roman mythology

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