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Vocabulary
Whale Behaviors
1860 Decline of Whaling
Whales vs. Fish
Nicknames
100
Pods
What is the name of a group that whales live in?
100
Spyhopping
What is it called when a whale pokes its head out of the water and looks around?
100
Electricity
What were oil lamps from whales replaced with?
100
Fish lay eggs
What is how Fish ave their babies?
100
Humpback Whale
What is the singing whale?
200
Spermaceti
What is a waxy, gray substance found in the brain of a Sperm Whale?
200
Breaching
What is it called when a whale jumps out of the water and lands on its back?
200
Civil War
What major war contributed to the decline of whaling?
200
Flukes go up and down
What is how whales move through the water?
200
Beluga
What is the white ghost whale?
300
Blubber
What is the layer of fat on a whale?
300
Lobtailing
What is it called when a whale smacks its flukes on the water?
300
Jojoba
What is the name of the plant that was used to replace parts of a whale used as lubricants?
300
Mammals have lungs and fish have gills?
What is how fish and mammals breath?
300
Sperm Whale
What is the whale that is hunted for valuable oil and throws up Ambergris?
400
Flukes
What is the part of the whale that moves up and down to propel it through the water?
400
Spouting
What is it called when a whale shoots water out of its back?
400
Petroleum
What was whale oil replaced with?
400
Fish have scales and whales have skin with hair
What are the outside layer of fish and mammals?
400
Fin whale
What is the second largest whale?
500
Krill
What is a small shrimp like creature that whales eat?
500
Flippering
What is it called when a whale hits the surface of the water with its flippers?
500
Gold Rush
What event took place in the United States that brought a decline to whaling?
500
Tail moves side to side
How does a fish propel itself through the water?
500
Right Whale
What is the whale hunted because it floats when it dies?