Morning Starters: Autumn 2 - Resilient & Resourceful
Did You Know?
The orange-spotted tusk fish is remarkable for its resilience and resourcefulness. By repeatedly smashing a shell against a piece of coral, it can reach the meaty part inside a hard-shelled clam. While the clam-cracking tusk fish isn’t the first fish observed using tools, it is the first to be filmed doing so.
Credit: BBC One - Blue Planet II
Word Challenge
Make a list of the hyphenated adjectives that appear on this page.
Add your own hyphenated adjective, which could be used to describe a tusk fish.
Grammar Challenge
Rewrite the sentence below, adding a relative clause.
The reef-dwelling tusk fish smashed open the hard-shelled clam.
Example: The reef-dwelling tusk fish, which lives among the colourful corals, smashed open the hard-shelled clam.
Number Challenge
Over a two-week period, a tusk fish smashed open 322 clams.
If it smashed open the same number of clams each day, how many clams did it smash open in a single day?
Critical Thinking
A resourceful person is good at solving problems.
Describe a problem that can be solved in a variety of different ways.