This pinniped has two teeth that grow extremely long.
What is a walrus?
100
This is one of four ways that reptiles are different from animals.
What is: 1) Mammals are warm blooded.
2) Give birth to live young.
3) Nurse their young.
4) Have hair - not scales.
100
Stomach stones that early reptiles (and other animals) swallowed to help grind food in their stomachs for digestion.
What are gastroliths?
100
Fins located on the top of a fish.
What are the dorsal fins?
200
This is the whole on top of the whale's head through which he breathes.
What is the blowhole?
200
This pinniped can be found in warm, fresh-water rivers and salty oceans, such as the rivers and ocean around Florida.
What is a manatee?
200
These creatures are considered herps.
What are reptiles and amphibians? (Or specific animals.)
200
Noah's flood - the Deluge
What is the reason why there might be so many sea creature fossils all over the earth - even on high mountain tops?
200
Fins located on the side of a fish.
What are the pectoral fins?
300
This is what we call newborn and young whales.
What are calves
300
Bulls and cows
What are male and female pinnipeds called?
300
This is one way that reptiles are different from amphibians.
What is: 1) Reptiles have dry scaly skin,
2) Lay eggs on dry ground,
3) Young look similar to adults.
1) Amphibians can breathe and drink through their skin.
300
The name means "spurious lizard".
What is a Nothosaur?
300
This fin is a tail fin on a fish.
What is the caudal fin?
400
Orca is another name for this.
What is a Killer Whale?
400
These are the four types of pinnipeds about which we have learned this year.
What are seals, seal lions, walruses and sea cows?
400
Their numbers are dwindling. The journey to their breeding grounds is long and full of danger. Many dangers are present for the incubating eggs. Many dangers are present for the hatched young and few make it.
Why are sea turtles considered an endangered species?
400
These has slim bodies and resemled sea snakes more than lizards.
What were mosasaurs?
400
These are two of the three kinds of fish.
What is bony fish, cartilaginous fish, or jawless fish?
500
This is another name for a "unicorn of the sea".
What is a Narwhal?
500
This is one way that true seals and sea lions are different.
What is: 1) Sea lions have small ear flaps; seals do not have external ear flaps.
2) Sea lions can "walk" on their flippers; seals cannot.
500
The animal gets its body heat from its surroundings - the air, water, or ground.
What is an ectothermic animal?
500
This creature has four flippers that were used like wings in the water.