pg 11, 12, 13,15,17
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| how do whales communicate | use a variety of signals; from click and chirps to blubbles and songs
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| what are some reasons why whales would need to communicate | 1.detecting danger2. mother calls baby3. mating4. defend territory
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| a way of locating objects by sending out sound waves | echolocation
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| layer of fat which allow survival in cold habitats | blubber
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| grooves in the skin on the underside of some whales allowing the whale body to expand as it feeds | ventral pleats
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| when a whale jump almost completely out of the water | breach
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| a fin on the back of sea creature | dorsal fin
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| the flat part at the end of whales tails | fluke
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| is when a whale slaps it's tail against that water | lobtail
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| a specially adapted nastril that is now on the whales heads | blowhole
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| the way you act in your environment | behavior
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| what were the goals of the crew's mission? Hint Anne reminded them | oberving humpback whale behavior identifying individal humpback and counting them3. studing their environment 4. taking water temperatures and depth measurements
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| where do dumpbacks spend their winter and what do they do there | they travel to caribean sea to mate and have babies
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| how can you tell humpback whale from another | by their fluke pattern
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| describe 2 whale behaviors that you have just learned about | we learned about lobtail and breach
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| whales with teeth. they use echolocation to find their prey. | odontoceted
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| whales with baleen; this include humpback, Grays and Right whales. Baleen filters krill, a shrimp like animal and other small fish out of the water | mysticetes
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| a material that grows on the upper jaws of some whales | baleen
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| tough wart like growths on the heads of Right whales | callosites
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| threat end; in danger of becoming extinct | endangered
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| the process of dying out, creasing to exist | extinction
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| a # of organisms that are dependent another for their food needs | food chain
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| a herd or group of whales or other animals | pod
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| specific catagory used to classific organisms that have thig=ngs in common | species
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