Mammals
Parts of a Whale
Toothed Whales
Baleen Whales
Whaling
100

All mammals have this fuzzy stuff growing on their body.

What is hair?

100

This is the hole from which whales breathe.

What is a spiracle or a blowhole?

100

Toothed whales are usually this in size compared to baleen whales.

What is smaller?

100
Baleen whales eat mostly this.

What is plankton or krill?

100

This is the fatty substance on a whale that was used for lamp oil.

What is blubber?

200

All mammals do this, which produces offspring.

What is give birth to live young.

200

These are the two parts of a whale's tail.

What are flukes?

200

This toothed whale is the largest.

What are sperm whales?

200

Baleen whales do not have teeth to chew, but rather do this.

What is filter their food?

200

This was used to make corsets for women.

What is baleen?

300

All mammals provide this food for their young.

What is milk?

300

These two fins are on both sides of a whale.

What are pectorals?

300

Toothed whales have this many blowholes.

What is one?

300

A blue whale can grow up to this number of feet.

What is 100 ft?

300

This whale was the easiest to hunt.

What is the Right whale?

400

All mammals are described as this kind of blooded animal.

What is warm-blooded.

400

These are the folds on the underside of a whale that expand when water is taken in.

What are ventral pleats?

400

These toothed whales are white and blow bubble rings.

What are beluga whales?

400

These whales are nicknamed "devilfish," and are black with white markings.

What are gray whales?

400

This is the weapon whalers would use to catch a whale.

What is a harpoon?

500

All mammals breathe this.

What is air?

500

This is the upper jaw of a whale.

What is the rostrum?

500

These toothed whales work together to surround their prey then attack.

What are killer whales?

500

These baleen whales have a U-shaped mouth and lots of large barnacle spots.

What is a right whale?

500

These types of gray whales have gone extinct.

What are Atlantic Gray whales?