Fish
A class of fish that has a bony skeleton, swim bladder or lungs, and an operculum that helps them breath when not moving.
What is a bony fish or Osteichthyes?
Name three types of ampbians.
What is frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians?
Name three types of reptiles.
What is lizards, snakes, crocodiles, alligators, turtles, and tortoises?
The number of chambers in the heart of a bird. This is also the same for mammals.
What is four?
Type of mammals that gives live birth to underdeveloped young that must complete their development in a pouch that contains mammary glands.
What is a marsupial?
A class of fish the lack scales. They have a notochord, gill pouches, and are considered to be close to the earliest fish that evolved.
What is jawless fish or Agnatha?
Process in which an organisms transitions from a larval stage into an adult stage. This happens in insects and amphibians.
What is metamorphosis?
Name three characteristics of Reptiles that an enable it to live all its life on land.
What is thick skin, scales, lungs, well-developed sensory organs, leathery shells on eggs, and amniotic egg?
A type of organism that can internally regulate its body temperature. This also includes mammals.
What is an endotherm?
Type of mammal that has a cloaca and lays eggs but also has fur and secretes milk for its young.
What is a monotreme?
A type of fish that have a cartilaginous skeleton, placoid scales, and paired fins and nostrils.
What is cartilaginous fish or Chondrichthyes?
Three adaptations that helps amphibians live on land as an adult.
What is lungs, eyelids, thicker skin, and an eardrum?
An organism that regulates its body temperature using behavior and its environment. This also includes amphibians.
What is an ectotherm?
A part of the digestive system that helps to grind up food. Name another organism we dissected that has this.
What is a gizzard? Earthworm, Grasshopper
Type of mammal that gives live birth after the young fully develop inside the mother's uterus.
What is placental?
Respiratory organ found in many aquatic organisms including fish that takes in dissolved oxygen as water flows over its surface.
What are gills?
Number of chambers in the heart of an amphibian. This also includes most reptiles.
What is three?
A single entrance/exit for sperm, egg, and wastes found in amphibians, reptiles, birds, and the platypus.
What is a cloaca?
The type of feather used by birds for insulation and the type of feather used for flight.
What is down and contour?
Name three adaptations of mammals that allow them to live in any environment.
What is hair, fur, or bristles (also known as pilus), a four chambered heart, sweat glands, and specialized teeth?
Type of reproduction that is characterized by laying eggs. This is done by most fish.
What is oviparous?
lungs, gills, and skin
Organisms that have a thin membrane creating a sack that surrounds and protects an embryo as it develops.
What is amniotes?
Name four adaptations a bird has that help it to be able to fly.
What is a wings, high metabolism, feathers, a lightweight skeleton, large flat breastbone, and extra air spaces in its body?
Internal organ that passes nutrients between the mother and its offspring during its development inside the uterus.
What is the plancenta?