5 Questions
Which marine mammals are the only herbivorous ones?
Order: Sirenia
Which order of marine mammals includes animals that extract their prey from seawater using baleen plates?
Order: Cetacea, Suborder: Mysticeti
Which suborder of marine mammals includes animals that must return to a solid substrate, such as land or ice, to bear their pups?
Order: Carnivora, Suborder: Pinnipedia
Which order of marine mammals includes animals that bear live young and nurse their young with milk produced by mammary glands?
Order: Cetacea, Suborder: Mysticeti
Which order of marine mammals spend much or all of their lives in fresh or brackish water?
Order: Sirenia
Test your knowledge of marine mammal characteristics with this quiz on the animal kingdom, phylum Chordata, and class Mammalia. See how well you know the general traits and features of these warm-blooded creatures that live in the ocean.
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