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1 Jeopardy ID, Skins, & Skulls Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Diving Acoustics Survey Misc. Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

2 $100 Question from ID, Skins, & Skulls Your Text Here Otherwise known as the cheek bone

3 $100 Answer from ID, Skins, & Skulls What is the zygomatic arch?

4 $200 Question from ID, Skins, & Skulls The family of this animal

5 $200 Answer from ID, Skins, & Skulls What is delphinidae?

6 $300 Question from ID, Skins, & Skulls Type of food this animal consumes

7 $300 Answer from ID, Skins, & Skulls What is krill or amphipods?

8 $400 Question from ID, Skins, & Skulls Scientific name of this animal

9 $400 Answer from ID, Skins, & Skulls What is Callorhinus ursinus?

10 $500 Question from ID, Skins, & Skulls Two species where the lanugo coat of the pup is shed in utero (you have seen fur from both species)

11 $500 Answer from ID, Skins, & Skulls What is the harbor and hooded seal?

12 $100 Question from Diving B C F D A E Letters that make up one dive cycle

13 $100 Answer from Diving What is B-F?

14 $200 Question from Diving Foraging strategy below 200 m

15 $200 Answer from Diving What is mesopelagic?

16 $300 Question from Diving Night Day Diving pattern that changes day to night

17 $300 Answer from Diving What is a diel pattern?

18 $400 Question from Diving The part of the water column this animal is using

19 $400 Answer from Diving What is the benthos?

20 $500 Question from Diving This species likely foraging strategy

21 $500 Answer from Diving What is epipelagic?

22 $100 Question from Acoustics The horizontal axis represents time, the vertical axis is frequency (Hz or khz); a third dimension indicating the amplitude of a particular frequency at a particular time is represented by the intensity or color.

23 $100 Answer from Acoustics What is a spectrogram?

24 $200 Question from Acoustics The louder of the 2 sounds

25 $200 Answer from Acoustics What is Figure A?

26 $300 Question from Acoustics Your Text Here Type of marine mammal

27 $300 Answer from Acoustics What is a mysticete?

28 $400 Question from Acoustics Frequency typically used by social cetaceans

29 $400 Answer from Acoustics What is high frequency?

30 $500 Question from Acoustics A B Species using lower frequency sound

31 $500 Answer from Acoustics What is B, the blue whale?

32 $100 Question from Survey The orientation of tracklines to sample equally across different environments

33 $100 Answer from Survey What is perpendicular to bathymetry?

34 $200 Question from Survey Three environmental factors that influence the distribution of marine mammals

35 $200 Answer from Survey What is: - chlorophyll-a (primary productivity) - oceanographic features (i.e. eddies, fronts) - bathymetry and underwater features (seamounts, canyons) - sea surface temperature

36 $300 Question from Survey The use of bearing and reticles in marine mammal surveys

37 $300 Answer from Survey What allows you to determine the position of the animal and distance from the boat?

38 $400 Question from Survey The area searched by the starboard observer

39 $400 Answer from Survey What is straight ahead and out 90 degrees to the right?

40 $500 Question from Survey The three species (and their scientific names) most likely to be seen offshore

41 $500 Answer from Survey What is the fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus), sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) and the northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus)?

42 $100 Question from Misc. Name this species

43 $100 Answer from Misc. What is the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus)?

44 $200 Question from Misc. The most common age/sex class of elephant seals at Ano Nuevo now and the life history event going on

45 $200 Answer from Misc. What are adult females and juveniles and what is the molt?

46 $300 Question from Misc. The northern and southern end points to the gray whale migration

47 $300 Answer from Misc. What is the Bering/Chuchki sea and the lagoons in Baja

48 $400 Question from Misc. The habitat of this animal

49 $400 Answer from Misc. What is a polar habitat (ice)?

50 $500 Question from Misc. This type of animal

51 $500 Answer from Misc. What is the river dolphin?

52 Final Jeopardy Name ALL marine mammal species housed at the marine lab that are not found in Monterey Bay (4 species)

53 Final Jeopardy Answer What is the ringed seal, spotted seal, monk seal and Atlantic bottlenose dolphin?

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