The Life of Whales
Whale Facts
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The name of whale family groups.
What are pods?
100
A mother whale and her calf
What is a maternal pod?
100
To move from one place to another
What is migrate?
100
What its called when whales jump out of the water, spin, and crash backward or sideways when they come back down.
What is breaching?
100
Scientists have many recordings of Humpback whales doing this.
What is singing?
200
The name of the hole in a whale's skull.
What is a blowhole?
200
The two main types of whales.
What are toothed and baleen?
200
A group of plants or animals that are alike in many ways.
What is species?
200
What it is called when whales raise their tails before they dive into the water.
What is fluking?
200
What a baby whale is called
What is a calf
300
The layer of fat under a whale's skin.
What is blubber?
300
The type of animal whales are
What is a mammal?
300
A whale that pops its head up above the surface of the water to see where it is or to check the weather is doing this.
What is spy-hopping?
300
When whales move with their heads down and their tails fluking above the surface it is called this.
What is sailing?
300
The name of the largest toothed dolphin.
What is an Orca?
400
The filter in the upper jaw of some whales that separates food from the water.
What is baleen?
400
The name of a whale's tail
What is a fluke?
400
The Beluga whale's nickname
What is sea canary?
400
What it is called when whales roll onto their backs and swim.
What is body rolling?
400
The name of the unicorn of the sea.
What is a narwhal?
500
The clicking sounds some whales make that bounce off objects to help them find food.
What is echolocation?
500
The largest animal on earth.
What is the blue whale?
500
California gray whales migrate every year between these two places.
What are Mexico and Alaska?
500
Pilot whales like to form a large line to play this game.
What is follow the leader?
500
What baleen whales eat.
What is krill?
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