Characteristics of Mammals
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Misc.
100
Mammals have __________________. They do not lay eggs.
What is live births?
100
The act of a whale leaping out of the water.
What is breaching?
100
Found in or relating to the ocean.
What is marine?
100
Whales, dolphins or porpoises that have teeth to catch prey.
What are toothed whales?
100
A fish moves its tail side to side, but a whale moves its tail _____________________.
What is up and down?
200
Ocean mammals have a little bit of this somewhere on their body.
What is hair/fur?
200
Law passed by the U.S. that bans whaling in U.S. waters.
What is the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972?
200
Ocean mammals that have winged feet including seals, sea lions and walruses.
What are pinnipeds?
200
Animals that hunt other animals for food.
What are predators?
200
Tiny plants that whales eat.
What is plankton?
300
The ocean mammals source of food when they are young.
What is their mother's milk?
300
Ocean mammals that have special teeth and jaws for eating meat.
What are carnivores?
300
Ocean mammals including all whales, dolphins and porpoises.
What are cetaceans?
300
Method used by some ocean mammals to find their way under water. The ocean mammal sends out sounds and listens to the returning sounds.
What is echolocation?
300
A whales uses its lungs to breathe unlike a fish that uses this.
What are gills?
400
Ocean mammals breathe air through these.
What is lungs?
400
Living on land
What is terrestrial?
400
Living in water
What is aquatic?
400
To move from one place to another, usually at the same time each year.
What is to migrate?
400
This is how ocean mammals stay warm.
What is blubber?
500
Ocean mammals are ___________ blooded.
What is warm?
500
Whales that use a straining method to eat food.
What are baleen whales?
500
Mammals including manatees and dugongs that live in swamps, rivers, and coastal marine waters.
What are sirenians?
500
An animal hunted by another for food.
What is prey?
500
This is a group of ocean mammals.
What is a pod?
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