The blue whale is the largest living animal to have ever lived on the planet Earth. Blue whales are way larger than the largest dinosaur that ever lived. The largest blue whales can grow as long as 100 feet, which is longer than three school buses put together!
Even though blue whales are huge, they eat tiny creatures known as krill. Krill are tiny shrimplike animals. The whale simply opens its mouth, fills it with krill and salt water, and filters the water out of plates in its mouth called baleen. The blue whale may eat over 8,000 pounds of krill in a single day!
The blue whale is ______________.
large, but smaller than some dinosaurs
large, but smaller than a school bus
larger than any animal that has ever lived on Earth.
A blue whale can grow as long as ________ feet.
A blue whale eats...
big fish
sharks
small creatures called krill
Which is NOT true?
A blue whale can eat over 8,000 pounds of krill in a day
A blue whale is larger than the largest dinosaurs
The blue whale is smaller than some elephants
What happens to the salt water that the blue whale gulps?