Marine Reptiles, Seabirds & Mammals

Match the descriptions with the correct vocabulary term.

• Cetecea

• Organisms in this class are cold blooded with scales

• Reptilia

• This order includes baleen whales.

• Mammalia

• Organisms in this order include turtles and

  tortoises.

• Carnivora

• This order includes sea lions.

• Chelonia

• Organisms in this class have hair on some

  part of their body and boorish their young with milk.

Which family includes the dolphins?

• Delphinidae

• Reptilia

• Mammalia

• Carnivora

Sea turtles can only hold their breath for 2 hours at a time.

• True

• False

______ are in Order Carnivora, Family Otariidae. They have ear flaps, hind flippers rotate, can sit upright and run.

(a)  

• SEA LIONS
• WALRUSES

• DOLPHINS

• SEALS

Birds are vertebrates in the class ________.

(a)  

• AVES
• MAMMALIA

• REPTILIA

• AMPHIBIA

_________ are in Order Pinnipedia. They don’t have ear flaps, rear flippers point backward and cannot rotate forward, out of water they crawl on their stomach.

Manatees and dugongs are endangered.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

12. Birds supply ________ (excrement) which is rich in nutrients.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Birds usually mate for life.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

Cetaceans have front and rear flippers.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2