Diet
Habitat & Origins
Manatee Facts
100

The type of consumer a Manatee is classified as

What is an aquatic herbivore (plant-eater)?

100

True or False: Manatees do not live in the ocean.

What is True?

100

Another name for manatees.

What are sea cows?

200

Two foods that Manatees consume.

What are Seagrasses and aquatic plants?

200

Places Manatees inhabit.

What are shallow, marshy coastal areas and/or freshwater habitats such as rivers of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the Amazon basin, and West Africa?

200

True or False: Manatees are extinct.

What is False?

300

The maximum hours that Manatees spend searching for food.

What are 8 hours?

300

The order that comprises Manatees.

What is Sirenia?

300

The range in size for Manatees.

What is from 8 to 13ft?



400

The daily food intake of Manatees

What is more than a 10th of their body weight?

400

The oldest sirenian fossil record.

What is 50-million-years-old?

400

The month that commemorates manatee awareness and the purpose of Manatee Awareness Month

What is November and for public awareness as it is a key component of our mission to protect manatees?

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