Aquatic Animals
These types of animals can swim.
What are nekton/necktonic?
The direction a whale moves their tails to swim.
What is up and down?
Sea lions, seals, and walruses are called this.
What are pinnipeds?
What is on the beach or in the sand
This primeval reptile looks like a dolphin.
What is an ichthyosaur?
Coral and sponge are types of animals that sit around and are called this.
What is sessile?
The thick layer of fat on a whale under their skin.
What is blubber?
This animal is the larges of the pinniped group.
What is the walrus?
this is the thing that makes turtles different from other reptiles.
What is their shell?
What are gastroliths?
This term is used to describe when the water comes way up on the shore.
What is high tide?
The other name for an orca
What is a killer whale?
A group of pinnipeds is called this.
What is a herd?
Between frogs and toads, this one can live further away from water.
What are toads?
This is the name for marine reptiles with really long necks.
What are plesiosaurs?
Name the 5 different oceans on our planet.
What are the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Indian, the Arctic and the Southern oceans?
This fish is often mistaken for a dolphin.
What is a porpoise?
On a walrus this changes depending on how warm or cold they are.
What is the color of their skin?
Amphibian eggs are different than reptiles eggs in this way.
What is they must stay moist?
These primeval reptiles had tiny flippers and paddle shaped tails.
What are mosasaurs?
This is the name for the part of dry ground that is underwater.
What is the continental shelf?
What is the humpback whale?
What are manatees?
When an animal lays eggs inside herself and then gives birth to living young, they are called this very long word.
What is ovoviviparous?
The leviathan is named in this old testament book of the Bible.
What is the Book of Psalms, Isaiah and Job