Marine Fish
Marine Reptiles
Marine Birds
Marine Mammals
Whales and Dolphins
100
This class of saltwater fish includes the lampreys and the hagfish.
What is Class Agnatha?
100
This is the name of the order that includes the crocodiles and caimans.
What is Order Crocodilia?
100
This is the name of the Class for all of the birds.
What is Class Aves?
100
This is the name for the order that all of the manatees and dugongs belong to.
What is Order Sirenia?
100
All of the Toothed Whales belong to this order.
What is Odontoceti?
200
This class of saltwater fish includes the sharks and the rays.
What is Class Chondrichthyes?
200
This is the only marine lizard to be found on Earth.
What is the Marine Iguana?
200
This is the largest penguin species on Earth.
What is the Emperor Penguin?
200
Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses all belong to this order.
What is Order Pinnipedia?
200
All of the Baleen Whales belong to this suborder.
What is Mysticeti?
300
This major part found in most fish helps them sense predators or prey in their surroundings.
What is the lateral line?
300
This is the name of the order for all of the sea turtles.
What is Order Chelonia?
300
This is the smallest penguin species on Earth.
What is the Fairy Penguin?
300
All whales and dolphins belong to this order.
What is Order Cetacea?
300
Name two examples of Toothed Whales.
What are Beluga Whales, Narwhal Whales, Sperm Whales, and Killer Whales?
400
This special organ found in predators such as sharks is used to sense electrical currents generated by their prey.
What is Ampullae of Lorenzini?
400
This is the largest and most endangered of the sea turtles.
What is the Leatherback Sea Turtle?
400
This is the most endangered penguin in the world.
What is the Galapagos Penguin?
400
This is a major difference between seals and sea lions.
What is ear holes (for seals) versus ear flaps (for sea lions)? OR What is hind flippers pointing backwards (for seals) versus hind flippers that can rotate under the body (for sea lions)?
400
These are two examples of Baleen Whales.
What are the Blue Whale, the Gray Whale, the Humpback Whale, the Right Whale, and the Minke Whale?
500
This fish body shape is an adaptation used by certain fish species (such as a shark or barracuda) to swim fast and to swim for long distances.
What is Fusiform shape?
500
This is the number of sea turtles that are endangered (which is all of them).
What is 7 species of sea turtles?
500
This is the name of the order for all of the Penguins.
What is Order Sphenisciformes?
500
These two animals are closely related to the manatee.
What is the dugong and the elephant?
500
These are 3 ways that whales and dolphins use echolocation. These are all reasons why echolocation is important to both whales and dolphins.
What are hunting, navigation, and communication?