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God's Great Earth
Habitats
Aquatic Animals
Whales
Pinnipeds
100
The largest animal on Earth
What is a Blue Whale?
100
The name for the deep, dark ocean floor
What is the Abyssal Plain?
100
nektonic creatures
What do we call animals that can swim?
100
Cetacean
What is another name for whale?
100
The part of the face where a nose is located
What is a snout?
200
Laws that protect animals from extinction.
What are conservation laws?
200
A long, flat area of under-water land which is close to shore
What is the Continental Shelf?
200
benthic creatures
What do we call animals that do not swim but move across the bottom of a body of water?
200
Up and down
How does a cetacean move its tail to propel itself through water?
200
It has no external ear flaps.
What is the main different between a True Seal and a Sea Lion?
300
It has a "horn", which is actually a tooth, like a mythical unicorn?
What is a narwhal?
300
A place where a river meets with an ocean or a sea
What is an estuary?
300
Animals that drift with the currents
What are plankton?
300
Through a blowhole
How does a whale breathe?
300
Polar bears, killer whales and sharks
What loves to EAT pinnipeds?
400
Killed too many whales - causing the near extinction of many whales
What did whalers do in the past?
400
Breeding grounds for pinnipeds
What are rookeries?
400
Animals that filter their food out of the water.
What are filter feeders?
400
First, it must get to the surface to breathe.
What does a calf do when it is born?
400
When a pinniped pulls its body out of the water and onto land
What is a haul out?
500
They are bigger, have beaks and curved dorsal fins.
How is a dolphin different than a porpoise?
500
When a whale comes onto land - perhaps to die or when it is very confused.
What is "beached"?
500
They can be found near the surface of the water.
Where can zooplankton be found at night?
500
breaching, lobtailing, spyhopping, logging
What do we call the different movements of a whale?
500
It is usually larger, has a more rounded snout, short flippers and rougher fur.
What is the difference between a sea lion and a fur seal?