WONDER #42: How Big Is the Biggest Whale?

Question 1 of 3

What evidence shows why blue whales are so large?

  1. They eat krill and lunge feed.
  2. They are warm blooded and intelligent
  3. They live in the ocean and buoyancy.
  4. None of the above.

Question 2 of 3

This Wonder is mostly about . . .

  1. Krill
  2. Blue whales
  3. Oceans
  4. Baleen whales

Question 3 of 3

Based on information from the Wonder, what is “lunge feeding?”

  1. Sucking in lots of seawater and pushing it out through a special filter called a baleen.
  2. A way blue whales fight.
  3. It is related to the size of the blue whale’s tongue.
  4. What a baby blue whale does for its first seven months.

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