4th Grade Ocean Study
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| The elastic, horn-like material forming the fringed plates that hang from the upper jaw of whales with no teeth. This also strains plankton from the water. | Baleen
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| Warm air being forecefully passed through a pair of blowholes on the top of a humpback whale's head | Blow
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| An opening for breathing, located on the top of a whale's head | blowhole
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| The thick layer of fat between the skin and the muscle layers of whales and other marine mammals | blubber
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| Small shrimp about the size of the tip of a finger that humpbacks love to eat | krill
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| The scientific genus and specie name, in Latin, for humpback whales. Means giant wing of New England | Megaptera noveaneglia
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| To change location periodically, especially by moving seasonally from one region to the next. | Migrate
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| Whales that have teeth | odontocetes
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| Humpback whales are known as _______ ________ because they eat both phytoplankton and zooplankton | planktonic feeders
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| Plants which are the base of our ocean food chain | Phytoplankton
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| Females are larger than males | reverse sexual dimorphism
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| Small animals which feed on phytoplankton | zooplankton
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| Also known as the mustached whale | mysticete
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