Whale Terminology Word Scramble
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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 |
| Warm air being forecefully passed through a pair of blowholes on the top of a humpback whale's head | Blow |
| An opening for breathing, located on the top of a whale's head | blowhole |
| The thick layer of fat between the skin and the muscle layers of whales and other marine mammals | blubber |
| Small shrimp about the size of the tip of a finger that humpbacks love to eat | krill |
| The scientific genus and specie name, in Latin, for humpback whales. Means giant wing of New England | Megaptera noveaneglia |
| To change location periodically, especially by moving seasonally from one region to the next. | Migrate |
| Whales that have teeth | odontocetes |
| Humpback whales are known as _______ ________ because they eat both phytoplankton and zooplankton | planktonic feeders |
| Plants which are the base of our ocean food chain | Phytoplankton |
| Females are larger than males | reverse sexual dimorphism |
| Small animals which feed on phytoplankton | zooplankton |
| Also known as the mustached whale | mysticete |
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