Unit 9 Study Guide
1. What are some characteristics of marine mammals?
2. What type of animals are pinnipeds?
3. What type of animals are cetaceans?
4. What type of animals are sirenias?
5. What type of animal belongs to the order carnivora?
6. Which animals that we studied have fur? Which animals have blubber? Which have both?
7. What type of food does a sea otter eat? What % of its body weight does it eat per day?
8. Where are manatees found?
9. Which animal is a relative of the elephant and referred to as a sea cow?
10. What is a blowhole? How did it form?
11. Which is larger: a toothed whale or a toothless whale?
12. What is a bubble net and what animal uses it?
13. Compare and contrast a “true” seal and a sea lion.
14. Write a general description for the following animals; what do these animals eat?
-- Walrus, Manatee, elephant seal, Sea otters, toothed whales, baleen whales
15. What is echolocation? How does it occur?
16. What is a baleen plate?
17. Describe the humpback whale’s migration habits.
1. What are some characteristics of marine mammals?
2. What type of animals are pinnipeds?
3. What type of animals are cetaceans?
4. What type of animals are sirenias?
5. What type of animal belongs to the order carnivora?
6. Which animals that we studied have fur? Which animals have blubber? Which have both?
7. What type of food does a sea otter eat? What % of its body weight does it eat per day?
8. Where are manatees found?
9. Which animal is a relative of the elephant and referred to as a sea cow?
10. What is a blowhole? How did it form?
11. Which is larger: a toothed whale or a toothless whale?
12. What is a bubble net and what animal uses it?
13. Compare and contrast a “true” seal and a sea lion.
14. Write a general description for the following animals; what do these animals eat?
-- Walrus, Manatee, elephant seal, Sea otters, toothed whales, baleen whales
15. What is echolocation? How does it occur?
16. What is a baleen plate?
17. Describe the humpback whale’s migration habits.