What are the two main groups of whales?

Baleen whales and toothed whales

How do whales breathe?

Through blowholes on top of their heads

Whales Quiz: Can You Get 8 Out of 10?

The biggest animal that has ever lived is swimming in our oceans today, and this whales quiz starts there. Follow humpbacks singing in the Pacific, sperm whales diving into darkness and the giants that feed in the icy waters around Antarctica.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Biggest
What is the largest animal ever known?
Groups
What are the two main groups of whales?
Food
What do blue whales mainly eat?
Songs
Which whales are famous for long, complex songs?
Deep
Which whale dives deepest to hunt squid?
Tusk
Which whale has a long spiral tusk?
Blowhole
How do whales breathe?
Novel
Which novel features a white sperm whale?
Migration
Which whale has one of the longest mammal migrations?
Orca
What is the orca also known as?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: What is the largest animal ever known?
Answer: Blue whale
It can be about 30 meters long.
Q2: What are the two main groups of whales?
Answer: Baleen whales and toothed whales
Baleen whales filter food from water.
Q3: What do blue whales mainly eat?
Answer: Krill
They can eat several tonnes a day.
Q4: Which whales are famous for long, complex songs?
Answer: Humpback whales
Males in the same area sing the same song.
Q5: Which whale dives deepest to hunt squid?
Answer: Cuvier's beaked whale
It has dived nearly 3,000 meters.
Q6: Which whale has a long spiral tusk?
Answer: Narwhal
The tusk is actually a tooth.
Q7: How do whales breathe?
Answer: Through blowholes on top of their heads
They must surface for air.
Q8: Which novel features a white sperm whale?
Answer: Moby-Dick
Herman Melville wrote it in 1851.
Q9: Which whale has one of the longest mammal migrations?
Answer: Gray whale
It travels between Mexico and the Arctic.
Q10: What is the orca also known as?
Answer: Killer whale
It is actually the largest dolphin.

Whales Quiz – Gentle Giants of the Sea

Whales are marine mammals that breathe air, give birth to live young and feed them milk. They are divided into baleen whales, which filter tiny prey such as krill, and toothed whales, which hunt fish and squid.

The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived, while sperm whales and beaked whales dive to astonishing depths. Humpbacks sing complex songs, and gray whales make some of the longest migrations of any mammal.

Commercial whaling pushed many species close to extinction. Since the 1986 moratorium, numbers of humpbacks and some other whales have recovered, but ship strikes, entanglement in fishing gear, noise and warming seas remain serious threats.

What This Quiz Teaches

Ocean lovers and students will enjoy these questions.

Which whale is largest
How baleen whales feed
Why humpbacks sing
How deep whales dive
What threatens whales today

Did You Know?

A blue whale's heart is the size of a small car.
Bowhead whales can live over 200 years.
Whale poop fertilizes the ocean.
Belugas can turn their heads.
Sperm whales have the largest brains.