abundance, accelerate, adapt, affect, ambergris, anchovy, animal, anti-whaling, aquatic, arctic, Arctic ocean, ashore, Atlantic, atmosphere, attraction, awe
baleen, barnacles, behemoth, beneath, birds, blowhole, blubber, body of water, bottom, breach, breed, bristles, bubbles, bull, buoyancy
calf, cameras, carcass, catcher boat, cavorting, cetacean, characteristics, coastline, color, commerce, communication, consume, continent, cow, creature, current, cuttlefish, cycle
data, deep, delight, depth, discovery, distance, distance, dive, diversity, diving, documentation, domain, dorsal
echolocation, effect, elements, elusive, endangered, energy, enormous, enormous, environment, exhale, explode, explore, extinct
features, feeding, filter, fins, fishing, flenser, flippers, float, flourish, fluctuation, fluke, food, force, fossil
giant, global globe, gulp
habitat, harpoon, heave, hemisphere, history, humpback, hunger, hunt
imperil, industry, influence, inhale, inquiry, intelligence, IWC
kelp, killing, krill
leaping, lemmer, leviathan, life, limit, living, lunge-feeding, lungs
majesty, mammal, marine, mid-ocean, migration, milk, mix, momentum, monitor, motion, movement
navigate, numbers, nutrient
observe, ocean, oceanic, oceanography, offshore, offshore, offspring, oil, over hunt, overfishing, oxygen
Pacific, peaceful, phonation, plankton, plants, plunge, pod, polar, pollutant, prey, products, protection
quantity, quest
range, realm, regulations, renewal, rescue, research, resource, respectful, reverence, rhythm, roll, rotting
schools, science, scientist, sea, sea creature, sea water, seaweed, secrets, shallow, shells, ships, sideways, skeleton, slapping, song, sound, specie, species, sperm oil, spermaceti, spew, spout, squid, stranded, strength, studies, submerge, supply, surface, surface, surge, survival, survival, swell, swim
tail, technology, teeming, temperate, temperature, thrive, tide, treatment, tropical, try pot, trying out
ubiquitous, underwater, unique, universal
variation, vast, vessel, visible
warm-blooded, wash up, watch, water, waters, watery, waves, waves, weather, whale watching, whalebone, whaling, whaling ground
yards from shore
zigzag, zone
Are you aware of these Whale facts:
beluga, narwhal = 10-15 feet
blue whale=largest animal, up to 100 feet long, weighing more than 100 short tons
sperm whale= can be underwater for 75 minutes
Whales Lesson Plan and discussion questions:
1. Describe why whales are hunted today
2. What role does the IWC (International Whaling Commission) play in protecting whales?
Name several ways that whales are different from fish
3. Report on the early days of the whaling industry
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