Chapter 14- Marine Mammals

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

• pinniped

• echolocation

• adaptation

• cetacean

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.

A toothed whale is a/an 

• odontocete
• baleen
• echolocation
• snail

A baleen whale is known as a/an

• odontocete
• mysticete
• pinniped

What do cetaceans use to breathe?

• mouth and nose

• gills

• flukes

• blowhole

Which has external ear flaps?

• sea lions
• seals

Which has long front flippers and can swing their hind flippers forward to walk on land?

• sea lions
• seals

Which is NOT true about marine mammals?

• They have hair.
• They are warm blooded and give live birth.
• They can breathe underwater.
• They feed their babies milk.

Which type of whale has a single blowhole?

• odontocete
• mysticete

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

• Mysteci
• Odontoceti
• Pinnipeds
• Sirenia