Marine Turtles and birds remove excess salts from their glands using these.
What are salt glands?
Sea turtles have these instead of claws
What are flippers?
Sea Snakes and marine iguana's differ from land species by the presence of this, that aids in swimming.
What is a flattened tail?
This shaved beak is streamlined for diving
What are straight beaks?
Name the order tooth and baleen whales
Seals different from Sea lion invitational not have this kind of ear flap
What is external ear flap?
Sea Lions can rotate these to crawl on land
What are rear flippers?
Penguins typically live in or around have these types of bones to enable them to swim and dive more easily.
What is Antartica & dense?
albetrosses and shearwaters have these on the upper edge of their bills into which their salt glands drain.
What are air tubes?
During the deep dive, marine mammals increase their oxygen levels by doing this .
What is exhaling?
During breeding a humpback whale will repeat this over and over, and scientist can often identify a specific individual by analyzing it
What is it song ?
Plankton feeding whales are in this whale group.
What is baleen?
When a dolphin echo locate it moves air out of this.
What is the blowhole?
Pelicans have this between their toes allowing them to be better swimmers than many birds.
What is webbing?
Name the order: seals and sea lions
What is Pinnipedia?
Calves are born tail first so they can remain connected to this and decrease the chance of this during delivery
What is the placenta? What is drowning?
When the animal leaves out of the water and crashes into the surface, this common activity is called this.
What is breaching?
Marine birds are present in a wider array of sea environments than Marin reptiles for these two reasons.
What are they endothermic and extremely mobile?
This moves when a dolphin makes the clicking sound.
What is the air sac muscles ?
Name the order: manatees
What is Sirenia?
When a helpful trait is expressed by a species.
What is adaption?
The new trait is not new at all but comes directly from this which is already possessed by the individual
What is genetic information?
This aids the blue whale in filtering plankton
What is baleen?
During a deep dive this collapses on a marine mammal, forcing air from the edges of the lung so it cannot be dissolved into the blood
What is the rib cage?
And activity in organism would do in its natural habitat is called this
What is a behavior?