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Great White Shark (Image credit: Carl Roessler/Bruce Coleman, Inc.)
Shark Myths Quiz
If you think you've learned everything you need to know about sharks from the Jaws movies, guess again. There's more to these creatures than gruesome killing and carting around cartilage! See if you can separate the fishy falsehoods from the facts!

Provided by the Discovery Channel.
1
Sharks' teeth are replaced continuously throughout their lives.
Ragged-Tooth Shark (Image credit: C. Velasquez, Zoology Department/University of Cape Town)
2
Sharks can only breathe while they are moving, and must keep swimming to stay alive.
Shark Gills (Image credit: Carl Roessler/SEA IMAGES)
3
All sharks are potentially harmful to people.
Whale Shark (Image credit: James D. Watt/Animals Animals)
4
Sharks will eat practically anything.
5
The largest shark species eat the smallest prey.
Blue Shark (Image credit: Fred McConnaughey/Photo Researchers, Inc.)
6
Sharks must roll sideways to bite.
Generalized Anatomy of a Shark (Image credit: © Microsoft Corporation)
7
In some species of sharks, the embryos eat one another in the womb.
Shark Egg Case with Embryos (Image credit: Dorling Kindersley)
8
Sharks can detect their prey without seeing or smelling it.
Hammerhead Shark (Image credit: F. Stuart Westmorland)
9
Shark cartilage pills can prevent or even cure cancer.
10
Sharks have poor eyesight.
Cookie-Cutter Shark (Norbert Wu / Peter Arnold, Inc.)
11
A shark can detect a single drop of blood in the water.
12
If you are attacked by a shark, you should punch it in the nose as hard as you can.
Blue Shark (Image credit: © Microsoft Corporation)
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