Whale Watching

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1. You spy a whale with a single blowhole. This whale belongs to which part of the whale family tree? baleen whales toothed whales whalebone whales buccinum whales

2. You are whale watching in cold waters. You spy a 15 to 20 foot whale with a beak like a dolphin. What is it? sei whale blue whale goosebeak whale pointed whale

3. You are sailing near Baja California and see a large group of dark colored coastal whales whose backs are mottled with white patches, barnacles and lice. Which whales do you see? finback whales white whales goosebeak whales gray whales

4. Your whale watching log records that you saw four full grown whales of the species listed below. What was the name of the largest whale? sei whale finback whale blue whale sperm whale

5. You spy two older adult bottlenose whales. You decide that one is a female and one is a male. What do you see that gives you this information? one has red spots and one does not one is light gray and one is black one has a tusk and one does not one is blue and one is tan

6. You spy a white whale without a dorsal fin. You identify this whale as a: beluga sei whale right whale gray whale

7. You are sailing in the North Atlantic and spy a long, relatively slender whale which you recognize as the second largest living whale species. You saw a: killer whale right whale bottlenose whale fin whale

8. Your whale log records your sightings of several less commonly known whales. One of these is the smallest whale species. Which is it? ginko-toothed beaked whale dwarf sperm whale pygmy right whale blue whale

9. Taking a break from sailing, you stop in a beach resort souvenir shop and buy an artificial whale tooth necklace. You recognize the tooth as coming from the following whale species: blue whale right whale pilot whale gray whale

10. Back sailing the Arctic seas, you are thrilled to spot a rarely seen species of whale. It is bluish-gray with white splotches. It has a long spiralled tusk. You have spotted: a female sperm whale a female narwhal a male pygmy blue whale a male narwhal