Q 01/05

Which whale species is considered the largest animal on Earth?

A) Blue Whale

B) Sperm Whale

C) Fin Whale

D) Humpback Whale

Answer · why

A) Blue Whale

Blue Whale: about 30 metres long and up to nearly 200 tonnes. Whalers took some 30,000 in the 1930-31 season alone and almost wiped the species out be...

Q 02/05

What is the primary food source for blue whales?

A) Small fish

B) Jellyfish

C) Giant squid

D) Krill

Answer · why

D) Krill

Krill are almost all a blue whale eats. It lunges open-mouthed into a swarm, then forces the water out through its baleen with its tongue, swallowing ...

Q 03/05

What is the most common collective noun for a group of whales?

A) Flock

B) Pod

C) Swarm

D) Colony

Answer · why

B) Pod

Pod: among orcas it is a family built around the mothers' line, and offspring tend to stay in it as adults; bigger gatherings form only briefly, to so...

Q 04/05

Through which specialized opening on top of their heads do whales breathe?

A) Gill slit

B) Mouth

C) Blowhole

D) Siphon

Answer · why

C) Blowhole

Blowhole: it is the whale's nostrils, which shifted over millions of years from the snout to the top of the head. Baleen whales still have two; toothe...

Q 05/05

Which word describes a whale hurling most of its body out of the water and landing with a huge splash?

A) Lobtailing

B) Breaching

C) Spyhopping

D) Logging

Answer · why

B) Breaching

Breaching can lift nearly the whole animal clear of the sea. Nobody is sure why whales do it; the leading ideas are signalling to other whales, shakin...