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Marine Biology II (BH)

Turtle Trivia

Question: This main difference between tortoises and sea turtles means one has an extra way to protect itself
Answer: tortoises can pull their head inside their shell

Question: Sea turtles, while they live their lives under water, can only breathe this
Answer: air

Question: The largest type of sea turtle
Answer: Leatherback

Question: This type of sea turtle has the scientific name "Caretta caretta"

hint: most common one we see at the rescue center

Answer: Loggerhead

Question: This determines if the eggs laid by sea turtles will be male or female

hint: the same as alligators

Answer: Temperature when they are laid

Some Things Fishy

Question: This type of fish lives in the ocean, but migrates every year to freshwater to lay their eggs
Answer: Salmon

Question: These type of fish have venom in their tails and are made of only cartilage and no bone
Answer: Stingrays

Question: When this fish feels threatened, they swell to twice their size
Answer: Pufferfish

Question: These are what fish smell through
Answer: Nares

Question: Fish do this together for protection

hint: it helps them encounter less water friction

Answer: School

Doo doo doo doo...

Question: Sharks are chondrichthyes- in Greek chondro means __________ and ichthyes means "fish"
Answer: cartilage

Question: This is the biggest predator fish in the ocean
Answer: Great white shark

Question: Carpet sharks live near the bottom of the ocean and use this (their nickname) to wait on approaching prey to attack
Answer: Camouflage

Question: ___________ salts harden the cartilage in the jaw of sharks to make it harder and stronger
Answer: Calcium

Question: Some sharks can smell ___ drop of tuna oil in ___ billion drops of water
Answer: one in 10 billion

Mammals Part 1

Question: Sea otters and polar bears are in this order
Answer: Carnivora

Question: Pinnipedia means ____-________ and includes seals, sea lions, and walruses
Answer: fin-footed

Question: Manatees are sometimes called these after a land mammal
Answer: Sea cows

Question: Name three types of seals 
Answer: elephant seals, harbor seals, leopard seals

Question: Sea lions are different from seals in many ways. Name 3
Answer: Sea lions can walk on land
Sea lions have external ear flaps
Sea lions have no claws
Sea lions make loud barking sounds
Sea lions are found only in salt water
Sea lions can lift their bellies off the ground


Mammals Part 2

Question: Dolphins, porpoises, and whales are all in this order
Answer: Cetacea

Question: Cetacea are divided into these two main groups
Answer: toothed whale and baleen whale

Question: Toothed whales have a mass of tissue in their foreheads (echolocation) called a _____
Answer: Melon

Question: Describe how a baleen whale eats
Answer: Takes in big gulp of water with krill, throat unfolds like a balloon to allow room for a lot of water, then uses tongue to "spit" the water back through baleen plates, that hold the krill-then the whale licks them off and swallows them

Question: Lifting their tail out of the water and slapping it down hard on the water is called this
Answer: Lobtailing