1. BY: Mrs. Nava’s 2 nd Grade Class

2. What It Looks Like (Characteristics) It’s the largest animal ever to live on earth. A blue whale can be up to 100 feet long. Blue whales can weigh up to 150 tons. That’s 300,000 pounds! A blue whale’s heart is as large as a small car. Fifty people could stand on a blue whale’s tongue. A whale’s nostrils are on the top of it’s head and are called blowholes.

3. Where It Lives Blue whales are found throughout the world’s oceans.

4. Life Cycle The average life span of a blue whale is 80 to 90 years. Blue whale babies stay inside their mothers for one year before being born. They weigh 3 tons (6,000 lbs) at birth and are up to 25’ long. The babies drink their mother’s milk and gain up to 200 pounds a day.

5. Food Chain Blue whales are the largest animals on earth but they eat very small shrimplike creatures called krill. An adult blue whale can eat up to 4 tons (8,000 lbs) of krill in one day. Blue whales have few predators but are sometimes attacked by sharks and killer whales.

6. Photos of Adult & Baby Do they look alike?

7. Want to learn more about blue whales? You can visit these websites! http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/blue-whale/ http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/planetocean/bl uewhale.html