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Whale Trivia Questions and Answers

Free printable whale trivia questions with answers about whales.

Free Easy Animal Trivia

What kind of animal is a whale?
A: A whale is the common name for a group of aquatic placental marine mammals.

What are whale’s closest living relatives?
A: Hippopotamuses.

Where do whales feed, mate, give birth, suckle and raise their young?
A: At sea.

What is the size range that whales come in?
A: Whales range in size from the 8.5 ft and 298 lb dwarf sperm whale to the 98 ft and 210 short tons blue whale.

What is the largest animal that has ever lived?
A: The blue whale.

The sperm whale is the largest what on earth?
A: Toothed predator.

What do baleen whales have instead of teeth?
A: Plates of baleen, a fringe-like structure used to expel water while retaining the krill and plankton which they eat.

They use their throat pleats to expand the mouth to do what?
A: Take in huge gulps of water.

Toothed whales have conical teeth designed for doing what?
A: Catching fish or squid.

Baleen whales have a well developed sense of what?
A: Smell.

Toothed whales have well-developed what?
A: Hearing.

Some species, such as sperm whales, are well adapted for what?
A: Diving very deep to catch squid and other prey.

Whales have evolved from what?
A: Land-living mammals.

What is a whale’s blow hole for?
A: Breathing.

What is the layer of fat under a whales skin called?
A: Blubber.

How fast can whales swim?
A: Up to 20 knots.

Whales produce a great variety of what?
A: Vocalizations, notably the extended songs of the humpback whale.

Most whale species prefer the colder waters of the what?
A: Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Where do most whales migrate to for giving birth?
A: The equator.

Species such as humpbacks and blue whales are capable of travelling how far without feeding?
A: Thousands of miles.

Males typically mate with more than one female every year, but females only mate how often?
A: Every two to three years.

When are the calves usually born?
A: In the spring and summer months.

Once relentlessly hunted, whales are now what?
A: Protected by international law.

The North Atlantic right whales nearly became what in the twentieth century?
A: Extinct.

How low did the right whale population drop to?
A: About 450.

The meat, blubber and baleen of whales have traditionally been used by whom?
A: The indigenous peoples of the Arctic.