| A | B |
|---|
| extinct | no longer exists |
| pod | group of whales |
| callositles | growths on the heads of right whales |
| baleen | hairlike plates growing down from the jaws of certain whales |
| flipper slapping | when a whale slaps its fluke on the water |
| lobtailing | when a whale slaps it fluke on the water |
| fluke | the tail of a whale |
| dorsal fin | the fin on the back of the whale |
| crow's nest | a partly enclosed place to stand high on the mast of a ship |
| breach | when a whale jumps straight up out of the water |
| stern | back of a boat |
| bow | the front of a boat |
| migration | to pass from one region to another on a regular basis |
| humpback whale | identified by patterns on it flukes |
| blue whale | largest whale can be up to 100 feet long and 180 tons, has 20 pounds of brains, on the endangered species list |
| sperm whale | largest toothed whale, can dive over a mile deep and stay down longer than an hour |
| right whale | identified by callosities on it head |
| gray whale | has longest migration, from Alaska to Mexico |
| narwhal | has a long tooth that looks like a long, straight horn |
| beluga | famous for its singing, often called the sea canary |
| killer whale | identified by its scars on it tall dorsal fin, the only whale to eat other whales |
