Aquatic Animals
Sea animals that drift with the current.
What are plankton?
Whales without teeth.
What are baleen whales?
This sea mammal has ears and rear flippers used to walk on land.
What is a sea lion?
Reptiles and amphibians are otherwise known as this scientific term which comes from the Greek word "herpeton" which means "creeping, crawling creatures that move about on their bellies."
What are herps?
This causes the tides.
What is the moon?
Animals that filter their food out of the water.
What are filter feeders?
When a whale sits straight up in the water with its head positions straight up and out of the water, sometimes turning around.
What is spy hopping?
This sea mammal has tusks.
What is a walrus?
The upper dome of a turtle's shell.
What is a carapace?
When a whale leaps into the air and purposefully flops down on the water with a splash.
What is breeching?
Bodies of water that are smaller than oceans but made up of saltwater.
What are seas?
The protruding part of a whale's head that is used for echolocation.
What is the melon?
This animal is called a sea cow and was probably mistaken for a mermaid.
What is a manatee?
Animals, like sea snakes, that lay eggs inside of themselves and then give birth to living young.
What is ovoviviparous?
When a pinniped pulls its body out of the water onto the land.
What is a haul out?
What are nektonic?
When whales travel great distances, spending summers in cool water near the polar regions where there is plenty of food and winters in warm waters near the equator where they have their babies.
What is migration?
This sea cow is found near Africa, Australia, and Asia. It is similar to a manatee.
What is a dugong?
The scientific name for cold blooded.
What is ectothermic?
Whales breathe out of this.
What is a blowhole?
Sea animals that do not swim but move across the bottom of a body of water.
What are benthic?
This is the most important sense for a whale.
What is hearing?
Seals, sea lions, and walruses are called this scientific name which means "fin-footed" in Latin.
What are pinnipeds?
This herp lays jelly-like eggs and has young that DO NOT look like miniature versions of the adult. Rather they go through a series of changes over several months, looking more and more like adults.
What is an amphibian?
It is a pinniped's breeding ground.
What is a rookery?