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| Where does turtles lay their eggs |
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| They lay their eggs on sandy beaches |
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| where do sea snakes lay their eggs |
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| They lay their eggs ashore |
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| How do marine iguanas feed and what does warming themselves on the rocks do for them |
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| they feed by diving and picking up seaweed.warming up on the rocks helps marine iguanas keep warm |
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| Sea birds are endotherms or ecotherms, sea reptiles are ectotherms or endotherms |
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Seabirds are endotherms
Sea Reptiles are ecotoherms |
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| Who and how are emperor peguin eggs taken car of? |
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| Emperor penguins eggs are taken care of by the male and taken care of by their fathers holding the eggs on top of their feet |
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| Penguins can fly and dive into the water? True or False |
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| Where are penguins found? |
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| Antartica and other cold temperate regions of the Southern hemisphere. The Galapagos Penguin. |
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| How do tubenose birds get their name? |
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| Tubenoses got thier name because they have tube-like nostrils and heavy beaks that are usually curved at the tip |
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| How far do some seabirds migrate and do they ever not experience a polar winter? |
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| find this one on pages 185-186-187 |
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| They feed by plunging in the water and catching fish in their pouch |
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| Can sea bird guano be used for useful human purposes? |
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| Yes, they are useful for human purposes by being mined for fertilizer |
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| Mammals constitute the largest group of vertebrates in terms of number of species ? True or False |
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| Did the earliest whales have blowholes? |
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| What do walruses use their tusks for? |
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| They use their tusks for defense and to hold or anchor ice. |
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| Sirenians are strict vegetarians? True or False |
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| How do baleen whales eat? |
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| They eat by their whale filter. The whale filter feeds by taking a big mouthful of water and squeezing it out through bristles. Then the whale licks off the food that is left behind on the bristles and swallows it. |
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| what do baleen whales eat? |
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| baleen whales eat schools of fish and krill |
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| What does the pleated throat of the baleen whale do for their eating? |
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| It helps them filter their food |
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| What did european whalers hunt whales for after the 1600's? |
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| blubber, meat and other valuable products |
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| What is the longest seals have been recorded in a dive underwater? |
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| The wedwll seal. And it has been recorded diving for as 1 hour 13 minutes and as deep as 575 m. |
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| What is the blowhole of cetaceans used for? |
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| To help them breath while they are submerged in the water |
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| What is or are the bends? |
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| bends are decompression sickness |
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| How do marine animals avoid the bend? |
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| adaptiona for deep prolong dives in marine mammals include efficient exchange of air on the surface storage of more oxygen in the blood and muscles, reduction of the blood supply to the extremities and collapsible lungs to help prevent bends |
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| Marine mammals, toothed whales like dolphins and porposes and some pinnipeds |
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| What is a melon used for? |
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Definition
| It is used for focusiing and directing outgoing sound waves. |
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| breaching is when animals refuse to move, and efforts to get them back into deeper water usually fails |
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| Describe gray whale migration habits |
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| Who returns to land to breed? |
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| What marine animals use blubber for insulation? |
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| How do cetaceans move their tail.How do fish move their tail? |
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| Cetaceans move their tails and flukes up and down. While fishes move their tails side to side. |
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