Marine Mammals Chapter Review

Which is not a trait of Marine Mammals?

• Hair
• Warm Blooded
• Nursing young
• Ectotherm

What Mammal is this:

• pinniped
• large porpoise
• toothed whale
• baleen whale

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The tail of a whale or dolphin is called?

• fin

• dorsal fin

• caudal fin

• fluke

5 characteristics of Marine Mammals are:
Live Birth
Nurse Young
Breath Air
Warm Blooded
Hair

• True
• False

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What do baleen whales have two of, that toothed whales have only one of?

• stomachs

• bladders

• blowholes

• set of eyes

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A term used to describe the action of when whales lift their head straight out of the water ___.

• lobtailing

• fluking

• spyhopping

• blowing

Seals and Sea Lions are examples of what type of mammals ___?

• Cetacean

• Felines

• Pinnipeds

• Sirenians

A toothed whale is a/an 

• odontocete
• baleen
• echolocation
• snail

Any member of the group of marine mammals which includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

• pinniped
• echolocation
• adaptation
• cetancean

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What is echolocation?

• A place on a map.

• Is when you yell in a large room and your voice repeats.

• The use of sound waves bouncing off objects to navigate or located prey.

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