Whale quiz

What is the term that describes how whales travel as an extended family?

• pod

• group

• herd

• pack

What are the layers of fat that allow some marine mammals to live in colder climates?

• baleen

• blubber

• thermal packs

• insulation pockets

What are the special overlapping fibers that whales use to filter out zooplankton?

• baleen

• pegs

• scaleen

• cross-hatched gills

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Whales and dolphins are members that belong to which order?

• pinnipeds

• cetaceans

• carnivora

• sirenians

What kind of whales are filter feeders that eat plankton and small fish?

• baleen

• toothed

• dorsal

• none of the above

What is the whale movement when it raises its head above water to look around?

• breaching

• spyhopping

• lobtailing

• echolocation

What is the whale movement when they smash their tails on the waters surface?

• spyhopping

• lobtailing

• breaching

• echolocation

What is the whale movement when they jump nearly completely out of water?

• lobtailing

• breaching

• spyhopping

• echolocation

Which is not a part of a baleen whale's diet?

• krill

• plankton

• small fish

• polar bears

Blackfish was about what kind of animal

• bottlenose dolphin

• California sea lion

• Humpback Whale

• Killer Whale (Orca)