Aquatic Animals
Oceans
Whales
Amazing facts
Classification
100
The area of the ocean that is well lit by the sun.
What is the Sunlit Zone?
100
The Pacific Ocean, The Atlantic Ocean, The Indian Ocean and the Arctic Ocean
What are the four oceans of the world
100
Mammals that live in the ocean
What are Marine Mammals?
100
What happens when the sun's gravity works against the moon's gravity.
What are tides?
100
The class in which mammals are placed
What is Mammalia?
200
These creatures are found near the surface of the water
What is zooplankton
200
A body of water that is smaller than an ocean. It is still salty because it is connected to an ocean.
What are Seas?
200
The most important sense a whale has.
What is hearing?
200
An animal that has a backbone.
What is a vertebrate?
200
The kingdom in which all animals are placed.
What is Animalia?
300
One part near the very end of the continental slope drop off, where the slope becomes much more gentle.
What is the Continental Rise?
300
A place where a river meets an ocean or a sea.
What are estuaries?
300
The part of the whale that allows it to breathe when it reaches the surface of the water.
What is a blowhole?
300
They are like reptiles but do not have scales.
What are amphibians
300
The name of the system that allows whales to echolocate.
What is Echolocation?
400
What we call it when a creature has the ability to make their own its own light, much like a firefly.
What is Bioluminescence?
400
In order, they are the continental shelf, the continental slope, the continental rise and the abyssal plain.
What are the four zones of the ocean floor?
400
These cetaceans (whales) have no teeth.
What is a Baleen Whale?
400
Animals that are cold-blooded and have a backbone, but don't breath air.
What is a fish?
400
The largest of all of God's creatures.
What is a Blue Whale?
500
The area deeper down the continental slope where it is fairly dark with very little sunlight coming through.
What is the Twight Zone?
500
The sunlit zone, the twilight zone and the midnight zone.
What are the three zones in which aquatic creatures live?
500
A creature that is different from a dolphin because it is shorter, wider, has no beak, and has a different dorsal fin.
What is a porpoise?
500
An animal that doesn't have a backbone
What is an invertebrate
500
The order in which animals with backbones are placed.
What is Chordata?