Science/Spelling Whale Words
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- baleen
- fingy plates that hang from a baleen whale's head
- blowhole
- nose; located on top of whale's head
- dorsal fin
- "topside" fin used to keep whale strait
- ear
- tiny opening; nonfunctual
- esophagus
- tube that carries food from the mouth to stomach
- eye
- located on side of body. can only see to the side
- flipper
- like an arm, used for turning
- flukes
- tail used for swimming; moves up and down
- forestomach
- first stomach; used for grinding down food
- intestine
- absorbes the nutrients from the food
- lungs
- organs used for breathing
- mammary glands
- milk producing organs inside a female's body located on underside
- midstomach
- second stomach; further breaks down food
- pyloric stomach
- third stomach; shape like intestine
- ribs
- protects the lungs; flexible
- rostrum
- long flat ridge on a baleen whale's head
- splashguard
- ridge on top of whale's head; in front of the blowhole
- tongue
- used to drive water out of mouth or to clean out mouth
- trachea
- passage that carries air from lungs to nostrils
- ventral pleats
- grooves on the underside of a whale's mouth; expand to hold more water