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3 COAST MARKETPLACE • TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2017 © 2017 7 by V Vicki icki Whit Whiting, ing, Editor Je Jeff f f Schinkel, Graphics V Vol. ol. o 33, No. 7 The scientific name n whal les is for killer whales Or r cinus c or r ca c . They T Orcinus orca. cas . are often called or orcas. iller whales are powerful p pow werful predators p that eat fish, fi ish, , seals, , sharks and even other whales nterested in eating whales. . However However, , they are not in interested on in the wild. person people. There has been n only one attack on a pers Scientists believe the whale w mistook a surfer for a seal. Interestingly Interestingly, , person the whale realized the mistake m and spat the perso on out. Are Ar re you an eagle-eyed e r reader? eader? Read the arti icle below and cir rc cle article circle the six errors error rs you find. Then r rewrite ewrite it cor rr ectly on the lines correctly below the ar rticle. article. Orca babies s are called calves. calves . They are born bo orn undurwater. undurwater . As soon as the calf is born, the mother orca a helps it swim to the surface for f its first breathe air. . of air The calf will wil ll drink its mother’s mother ’ s cream like milk cream-like m for too years. years The milk is about 48% fat and helps the ca alf develop a thin, calf warm layer of blubber blubber. . From the land, the orc orca’s ca’ s black and white pattern may y not look like good camouflage e. But it camouflage. is, and it helps the orc ca orca sneak up on its prey. prey . Orcas have a patch of f gray behind the dorsal fin. This patch is called a sadd dle patch. saddle E h orca has Each h its i own n distinctively shaped saddle patch. swimming When an orca is swim mming in the deep, fish swim mming above swimming it look down and see only inky darkness. darkness Fish swimming below w an orca look up to the white of o the orca’ orca’s s underbody, , which ble blends underbody ends with the bright light of the sun shining shinin ng down. Standards Link: Life Science: Students know that living organism organisms ms have distinct structures pecific functions in growth, survival and reproduction. and body systems that serve sp specific Follow these easy ste steps eps to create drawing! ! a whale of a drawing Orcas have 40 to 52 shar O sharp rp teeth, three e each of which is about th hree inches in nches long. As an orca gets g o older, , it grows layers on older th he outside of its teeth, the f forming rings. If you s slice an orca tooth and c count the layers, you c discover the age can o the orca. of The calf will wil ll start eating solid food such as a s herring, young salmon and squid at about tree months old. . never it’s s An orca nev ver leaves it’ family family. . Even n a fully grown adult male spends s its life with called a pod pod. . the family group g between 5 and Most pods have h Occasionally, 50 orcas. Oc ccasionally , two or more pods meat m and briefly form a “sup sup perpod perpod” with up to “superpod” 150 orcas. Draw over the D lines in p pencil in nk. Erase the ink. p pencil lines. Fill in the b black patches of the body y . body. Orcas look a bit like fish f and live in the mammals. sea, but they are mam mmals. They are warm-blooded, feed their t young with milk and breathe air through throug gh nostrils called blowholes. . Orcas mu must blowholes ust hold their breath underwater. when they are underw water . Look at t the two pictures, then n read how to tell the difference dif fe erence between a male e and female orca. Label L each one. The male dorsal fin is i upright and triangular triangular. . Black and It can be about six feet fee et high and is the tallest White and dorsal l fin in the animal king gdom. The female’ kingdom. female’s s is R All l Over Red Look at a one sh horter and curves shorter p page age of today’s today’ t s backward. newspaper newspap ne per and circle cir in red ci re d all the words word ds you know know! w! Standards Link: Life Science: Studen Students ts know that organisms can be compared d to differences. observe b their h i similarities i il i i and d dif f ference f es. Each underwater cre creature eature is worth points. Which W bubble has the highest score? Standards Link: Number Sen Sense: nse: Calculate sums and dif differences. ferences . BLOWHOLES DORSAL KILLER WHALES ORCINUS FIN SURFER SEAL NOSTRILS RINGS P A TCH T PATCH GRA A Y GRAY WILD LIGHT Standards Link: Link : V Vocabulary: ocabulary: o Understand leve level-appropriate el-appropriate pp p reading voc vocabulary. cabulary . Fin nd the words in the puzz Find puzzle, zle, the en in this week’ oop then week’s s Kid Sco Scoop stories and activities. W S E L O H W O L B T O H K R A H S K A H L R E H R A I O R This week’ w week’s s word: G F A C E W L Y T I DORSAL DO ORSAL I A T F I L E A L N The adjective adj jective dorsal means the t top side or back of o an animal. L A R L E N S R E G P U D R I E U G O S S R C F D O R S A L A T S L I R T S O N Standard Standards ds Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized d identical Skim patterns. words. Sk kim and scan reading. Recall spelling pa atterns. Orcas ha O h have ave tall, t ll pointy i t do dorsal orsal fins. Try T r ry to use e the word dorsal in a sentence sente ence today when talking with w your friends family and fam mily members. A Whale of a Pet Searc ch Synonym Search Or ca and killer whale e are synonyms. Orca Synonyms have the sa same ame or nearly the same throug gh today’s today’ s newspaper meaning. Look through for five or more pairs of synonyms. W Write r rite a paragraph using all ten n words. ANSWER: AN SWER: In the “Kelp Wanted” W anted d” ads! Standards Link: Grammar: Identify Iden ntify synonyms. Standards Link: Life Science: Students know organisms that living organis sms have distinct structures and body systems s that serve specific functions in growth, survival surviva al and reproduction. What would your life be like with a whale for a pet?
