WHALES
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awscribner on March 15, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 whales | are not fish. social, aquatic mammals that live in the ocean. they breathe air, give birth to young, nurse their babies(calves) and are warm blooded |
| lungs and blowholes | What whales use to breathe. |
| blubber | a thick layer of fat that helps keep whales warm. |
| types of whales | baleen and toothed |
| krill | shrimplike animals that get eaten by baleen whales with their bristle like hair. |
| echolocation | how whales communicate and find food. |
| pod | a group of whales |
| toothed whales | have one nostril, or blowhole, and teeth to catch fish and other sea animals. includes porpoises and dolphins. |
| baleen whales | have 2 nostrils, or blow holes, and have moustache like baleen plates in their mouths that they use to strain food from seawater. |
| blue whale | the largest animal that has ever lived. There are ten living species of baleen whales. |
| blowhole | a whales nostril |
| bull | male whale |
| cow | female whale |
| calf | baby whale |
| plankton | tiny sea creatures that baleen whales eat. |
| types of toothed whales | dolphins, orcas, sperms, porpoises |
| blow or spout | the spray from a whales lungs |
| flukes | two flat lobes that make up a whale's tale |
| how whales sleep | whales float on the surface of the water and drift. This is called logging. |
| breaching | when whales jump out of the water |
| lobtailing | when whales lift their flukes above the surface and splash down hard. |
| spyhopping | when whales lift their heads vertically out of the water. |
| cetaceans | scientific name of whales |
| migrate | to move from one place to another. some whale migrate. |
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