Currents and the waters of the world
Aquatic Animals
Whales
Seals and Sea Cows
Aquatic Herps
100
These are smaller than oceans, but they are made up of salt water because they are connected to oceans.
What are seas?
100
These are animals that can swim.
What are nektonic creatures?
100
These are the two main types of whales.
What are toothed whales and baleen whales?
100
These pinnipeds do not have external ear flaps.
What is a true seal?
100
The name "herps" includes these two kinds of animals.
What are reptiles and amphibians?
200
These are the places where a river meets an ocean or sea.
What are estuaries?
200
These are animals that do not swim but move across the bottom of a body of water.
What are benthic creatures?
200
This is the most important sense to a whale.
What is hearing?
200
This is when a pinniped pulls its body out of the water and onto land.
What is haul out?
200
This is the top part of a turtle's shell.
What is a carapace?
300
These are circular currents.
What are gyres?
300
These are animals that drift with the currents.
What are plankton?
300
Whales use this in order to breathe air.
What is a blowhole?
300
This is one thing a walrus has which is different from other pinnipeds.
What are tusks?
300
This is the term that is used to describe hibernation in sea turtles.
What is brumation?
400
These are currents caused by temperature and salt levels.
What are thermohaline currents?
400
These are animals that filter their food out of the water.
What are filter feeders?
400
This is the largest animal on the earth.
What is the blue whale?
400
These two animals are referred to as, "sea cows."
What are manatees and dugongs?
400
Describe the shape of a sea snake's tail.
What is paddle shaped?
500
These are the three zones in which the aquatic creatures live.
What are the sunlit, twilight and midnight zones?
500
This is the order that whales belong to.
What is Cetacea? (see tay' shah)
500
This is the order that seals, sea lions and walruses belong to.
What is Pinnipedia?
500
These types of salamanders never lose their gills.
What are mudpuppies and waterdogs?
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