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COAST MARKETPLACE • TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2017
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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.
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circle
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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
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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
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lines in
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pencil
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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
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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
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know that organisms can be compared
d to
differences.
observe
b
their
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d dif
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f
es.
Each underwater cre
creature
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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
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reading voc
vocabulary.
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Fin nd the words in the puzz
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week’s s Kid Sco
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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?