Captain Gil's Handbook
Whale facts
Even more whale facts!
Story Details
Reading skills
100
Whales with teeth are called...
Toothed whales.
100
What is this whale body part called?
flukes
100
What whale can perform in a marine park?
Dolphin
100
It was a very large man dressed in a dark blue jacket. He had a bushy white beard and wore a cap with an anchor on it. Who is it?
Captain Gil
100
Which point of view is this story written?
200
Whales make a lot of different sounds. They sneeze, blow, whistle, sigh.
Pretend a whale and make all of these!
200
What are whale moms and whale babies called?
Cow and calf
200
Which whales are the most endangered of the great whales?
Right whales
200
What transport did Wanda and Tim use to explore the ocean's world?
Mini-sub
200
Name one synonym and one antonym for this word: enormous
300
Every year humpbacks migrate from the cold polar waters where they feed to warmer tropical waters. There they mate and have babies. Explain in your own words what means "they migrate"?
300
Why do humpbacks sing?
Nobody knows!
300
What do whales breathe through?
Blowhole
300
There was a button on the control panel with black letters on it. They read SUR CE. The black paint on some letters got rubbed off.
Which letters were missing, and what was the word?
R F
SURFACE
300
"Blasted barnacles!”
Which type of figurative language is used here?
Alliteration
400
How did Right Whales get their name?
They got their name from whalers - this was "the right whale" to hunt
400
Many kinds of whales swim in pods.
What does it mean "in pods"?
Groups, families
400
Which whale can weigh as much as 32 elephants and is the largest animal in the world?
Blue whale
400
Who is going to be the new classmate in Ms Frizzle's class?
Right Whale called Angel
400
Fill in the effect.
Cause: Whale hunters in olden times killed so many right whales.
Effect: