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Physical Characteristics
Oceans
Vocabulary
It's a Whale's Life
Grab Bag
100
Animals that have baleen and two blowholes
What are mysticetes?
100
What percentage of earth is covered by water.
What is 70-71%
100
A toothed whale with a single blowhole.
What is an odontocete?
100
The largest creature to ever live on Earth.
What is the blue whale?
100
How whales "steer" in the water.
What are pectoral fins.
200
Two characteristics common to all whales.
What are flukes or fins and blowholes?
200
What sets the tides in motion.
What is the moon?
200
What is the process used to understand their surroundings by a few animals.
What is echolocation?
200
The method whales use to communicate.
What is by singing?
200
A type of communication used by humans that does not involve speaking.
What is sign language?
300
The way whales breathe.
What is a blowhole?
300
How often tides occur.
What is twice each day?
300
Moving from one place to another in order to find food or have babies.
What is migration?
300
The way a whale propels itself forward in the water.
What is by using it's fluke?
300
How long a whale can live.
What is up to 50 years or more?
400
Two ways a humpback can be distinguished from other whales?
What is by the white pectoral fins, the small dorsal fin, or the way they sing. (Need 2 of the 3)
400
When tides are their biggest.
What is neap tide?
400
One way that ocean impacts life on land.
What is climate (weather, temperature, rainfall, etc.)?
400
What is the life cycle of a whale?
What is live birth, usually migration, finds mate, reproduces, and dies?
400
The reason that whales are hunted.
What is whale oil or meat?
500
How much a baby blue whale can weigh.
What is 3 or 4 tons?
500
A unit of measurement equal to six feet used to measure depth of water.
What is a fathom?
500
The area of lines or grooves in the skin that can stretch to allow water to fill the mouth of a baleen whale.
What are ventral pleats?
500
The three categories of mammals in the order of Cetacea.
What are whale, dolphin, and porpoise?
500
Coarse, bristly material used to capture tiny organisms.
What is baleen?