Marine Mammal Basics
This trait makes marine mammals surface for air.
What is breathing air / having lungs?
Blue whales are the largest animals on ___?
What is Earth?
This group includes seals, sea lions, and walruses.
What is Pinnipedia?
Sirenia includes these two types of marine mammals.
What are manatees and dugongs?
Blubber mainly helps animals stay ___.
What is warm?
These three main groups include marine mammals.
→ What are Carnivora, Pinnipedia, and Sirenia?
This tiny shrimp-like creature makes up most of a blue whale’s diet.
What is krill?
Walruses are famous for these long, ivory structures.
What are tusks?
Sirenian animals mainly eat this.
What is seagrass / aquatic plants?
Besides insulation, list one more function of blubber.
→ What is energy storage or buoyancy?
This large order includes many meat-eaters such as seals and sea lions.
What is Carnivora?
Instead of teeth, blue whales use these to filter food.
What are baleen plates?
Sea lions have this feature that seals do not.
What are external ear flaps?
Sirenia are often called this nickname because they graze slowly.
What are sea cows?
Pinnipeds use these body parts to swim and steer underwater.
What are flippers?
True or False: Marine mammals are warm-blooded.
What is True?
Blue whales have this thick layer of fat used for warmth and energy.
What is blubber?
Pinniped means this in Latin
What is "fin footed"
True or false: Dugongs have long downward pointing snouts
What is true?
Which marine mammal can weigh over 150 tons?
What is a blue whale
Give two characteristics all marine mammals share.
What are: warm-blooded, breathe air, give live birth, nurse young, have hair at some point, depend on the ocean?
This pinniped has a noisy bark
What is a sea lion?
Manatees and dugongs belong to this classification level (besides order) meaning “fully aquatic herbivores.”
What is Sirenia?
The order do polar bears and otters belong to
What is carnivora?