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UAMN Virtual Junior Curators: Marine Guess Who? Trivia a game to explore fun facts about marine mammals! Materials Needed: Printable trivia cards and cards, scissors, bag or other small container, pencil. Prepare the Cards: Cut out the trivia cards along the dotted lines (try not to peek at the answers!). Place the trivia cards in a bag or other small container. Cut out the species cards and give one to each player. How to Play: Take turns picking trivia questions from the bag and ask the other players the “Guess who?” question. For each correct answer, mark the corresponding on your species card. Challenge each other to mark the most species! Can you “collect” all fourteen ? Note: Some questions have more than one correct answer. You can choose whether to mark one or all of them on your species card. Marine Mammals in Alaska The of Alaska are home to polar , , , and many species of and seals. Some stay year-round, while others migrate north in the summer to breed. waters provide an ideal for marine mammals, as they are rich in food and are a gateway to the . These waters have some of the richest marine species diversity in the world (darkest areas on the map).

Discover more about Arctic marine mammals: Species richness for 11 marine mammals. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/find-species Image: State of the Arctic Marine Report.

UAMN Virtual Junior Curators: Marine Mammals

Guess Who? Trivia: Species Cards Cut along the dotted lines. Note: Animals are not to scale.

S ea K iller

Po lar Wa lrus

Pa cific H arbor Pacific Harbor -sided Porpoise White-sided Porpoise Dolphin Dolphin Rin ged Rib bon Ringed Seal Seal Seal

Bowhead Bowhead Narwhal Whale Whale

Beluga Humpback Beluga Humpback Whale Whale Whale Whale

Stel ler’s Blue Steller’s Blue Sea Cow Whale Sea Cow Whale

Sea Otter Killer Whale Sea Otter Killer Whale

Polar Bear Walrus Polar Bear Walrus

Pacific Harbor Pacific Harbor White-sided Porpoise White-sided Porpoise Dolphin Dolphin

Ringed Ribbon Ringed Ribbon Seal Seal Seal Seal

Bowhead Narwhal Bowhead Narwhal Whale Whale

Beluga Humpback Beluga Humpback Whale Whale Whale Whale

Steller’s Blue Steller’s Blue Sea Cow Whale Sea Cow Whale UAMN Virtual Junior Curators: Marine Mammals

Guess Who? Trivia Cards

I am the largest animal in the I am very shy around people and I belong to the family.

world. boats, and often travel alone.

elahwe ulb r:ewsnA

rettoea s r:ewsnA esiorpop robarh r:ewsnA

When I surface for air, I don’t make My dark body has large stripes on I run on the ice with my front a splash. it. flippers, swishing my hindquarters

back and forth.

esiorpop robarh r:ewsnA leas nobbri r:ewsnA leas nobbri r:ewsnA

I have the densest of any animal My bones turn pink when I eat I almost went extinct because of (up to one million hairs per square purple sea urchins! the fur trade. In 1912, there were

inch!). less than 300 of us left in the wild.

rettoea s r:ewsnA rettoea s r:ewsnA rettoea s r:ewsnA

I can eat 100 pounds of in I am the keeper of the forest. I am the only one sitting! without blubber.

earb arlop r:ewsnA rettoea s r:ewsnA rettoea s r:ewsnA

When I was born, I weighed just In the summer, I become stranded My fur looks white but it is one pound. But I can grow to be on land if is too far from the transparent. Underneath, my skin is

2000 pounds! coast. black.

earb arlop r:ewsnA earb arlop r:ewsnA earb arlop r:ewsnA

The skin around my neck is almost My friends and I make a blubber is a major threat to 4 inches thick to protect me from wall to protect ourselves against my species because I depend on

injuries. polar bears. sea ice to eat seals. earb arlop r:ewsnA srualw r:ewsnA srualw r:ewsnA

I love to cuddle! In captivity, calves I can suck out a clam from its shell In , my name is “Odobenus”, cuddle with animal caretakers to at a speed of 120 mph, and eat which means “tooth walker”.

survive. around 6000 clams each day! srualw r:ewsnA srualw r:ewsnA srualw r:ewsnA

My bow-shaped head helps me I can live over 200 years! I swim with my mouth open to feed

break through sea ice. on zooplankton.

elahw

eulb ,ealhw ckabmpuh e,lahw deahwob r:ewsnA elahw deahwob r:ewsnA elahw deahwob r:ewsnA

My coat has ring-shaped markings. My blubber is the thickest of any I am known for my intense tail and animal, up to 19 inches thick! flipper flapping, and leaping out of

the during mating season. e lahw deahwob r:ewsnA leas degnri r:ewsnA

elahw deahwob r:ewsnA UAMN Virtual Junior Curators: Marine Mammals

I can cut out a breathing hole I dig out lairs under the sea ice to I cut breathing holes through the through ice 6 feet thick! protect my pups from polar bears. ice with the claws on my front

flippers.

leas degnri r:ewsnA leas degnri r:ewsnA leas degnri r:ewsnA

I spend long amounts of time I raise my young on thin ice to To feed, I suck into my mouth

scanning the horizon for predators. protect them from predators. like a vacuum!

leas nobbri r:ewsnA alhwran dana guelb r:ewsnA leas nobbri r:ewsnA

I am the ocean’s top predator. I was hunted for by Arctic I went extinct in the 1700s. My expeditions in the 1700s. One of us closest relatives are the dugong

could feed a crew for 30 days. and the manatee.

elahwer llik r:ewsnA wocea s s’erlelSt r:ewsnA wocea s ’serlelSt r:ewsnA

I hunt in a pack, just like a . I live in all of the world’s oceans I am the largest member of the and eat many different kinds of dolphin family.

prey.

elahwer llik r:ewsnA elahwer llik r:ewsnA elahwer llik r:ewsnA

I am easily recognized underwater I can change the shape of my I can swallow a sea whole! because of my unusual white color. bulbous head by blowing air

through my sinuses!

ealhwaguelb r:ewsnA elahwer llik r:ewsnA elahwa guelb r:ewsnA

I am one of the best divers in the My skin contains as much vitamin C Males of my species have a long world, diving up to 1500 meters as an orange! spiral shaped tooth.

deep (almost 5000ft).

alhwarn r:ewsnA alhwarn r:ewsnA alhwarn r:ewsnA

Together with others in my pod, we My cone shaped teeth help me I can spin in the air and do make bubble nets to feed. hold on to fish. I swallow them summersaults. whole so the bones don’t catch in

my throat. selahw kacbpmuh r:ewsnA nihplod dedis-etihwc ifiPac r:ewsnA dis-etihwc ifiPac r:ewsnA

nih plo d d e

I like to“bow ride”: swim near the I don’t have a dorsal fin, because in My nickname is the “sea canary” front of ships. the cold Arctic water it would lose because I am very vocal!

heat.

elahw deahwob e,lahwa guelb r:ewsnA

nihplod dedis-etihwc ificPa r:ewsnA elahwa guelb r:ewsnA

Underwater noise makes Climate change is a threat to my My vision and hearing work well it hard for me to communicate with species because I depend on sea both underwater and out of the

others of my species. ice. water.

.osla esiecpsr ehto e.siopropr obarh

leas degnri r:ewsnA ylekil ,elahw aguelb e,lahw deahwob , leas

,nihplod dedis-etihw cifciPa e,lahwe ulb e,lahw

nobbri ,ales degnir ,srualw ear,b arlop r:ewsnA aguleb ,ealhw ckabmpuh e,lahw deahwob :rewsnA