Marine Mammals

This group of Marine Mammals is comprised of Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses

• Mysteci
• Odontoceti
• Pinnipeds
• Sirenia

Sea Otters use what adaptation to keep warm?

• Blubber
• Thick Fur
• Sun Bathing

What organism does not belong to the order Cetacea? 

• whales
• sharks
• porpoises
• dolphins

What do dolphins use to determine size, distance, and shapes of underwater objects?

• eyesight & hearing
• echolocation
• waves on the surface
• smell

Manatees are mammals that are 

• herbivores
• carnivores
• omnivores
• photosynthetic

A toothed whale is a/an 

• odontocete
• baleen
• echolocation
• snail

What is echolocation?

• A place on a map.
• Is when you yell in a large room and your voice repeats.
• The use of echoes to navigate or located prey.

What is baleen?

• Flexible bristles in the mouths of the whale used to filter prey out of the water.
• A way a dolphin navigates and locates prey.
• Something you blow up with air and use to decorate for a party.

Tags

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Which is used to keep warm?

• blubber
• baleen
• blowhole
• flukes

What is a difference between seals and sea otters?

• Seals eat fish, sea lions eat plankton

• Seal lions eat fish, seals eat plankton

• Seals have external ears, sea lions don't

• Sea lions have external ears, seals don't