| A | B |
| biologist | scientist who studies living things |
| bluff | cliff |
| lagoon | body of shallow water |
| rumbling | making a low rolling sound |
| massive | enormous |
| tropical | warm |
| encounter | an unexpected meeting |
| exhaling | breathing out |
| bulky | big, large |
| scientist | someone that studies things |
| breaching | a whale will jump out of the water and make a giant splash falling back in the water |
| migration | move from one place to another |
| spy hopping | a whale pops head out of the water as if to look around |
| fluke | a whale's wide, flat tail |
| fluking | when a whale raises its tail up in the air as it goes into a deep dive |