Review --Marine Birds and Mammals. Also, review from Marine Biology Book Website
Test 3
Biology 150
1. What is a cetacean?
2. What is the difference between a whale and a dolphin?
3. What is a pinniped?
4. What is the difference between a seal and a sea lion?
5. What is a sirenian?
6. What does a manatee eat?
7. Which two families of the order carnivora have marine mammal representatives?
8. Describe the feeding strategies of the 3 families of baleen whales.
9. What is the difference between a dolphin and a porpoise?
10. Why is a sea otter in more danger of hypothermia than a blue whale?
11. How does the sea otter overcome these problems?
12. What are elephant seals doing in December? In January? In July?
13. You see a large whale with very long pectoral fins. What kind of whale is it? What is the function of the fins?
14. Describe 3 adaptations cetaceans have for living in water.
15. What are 3 reasons for animals to migrate?
16. Pacific Salmon spawn ______time(s) before they die.
17. Which stream do most Pacific salmon return to for spawning?
19. What is distinctive about the migration of the arctic tern? What is the benefit of this migratory pattern?
20. Which Emperor penguin parent incubates the egg?