External Anatomy
What is the term for the projecting jaw that contains the nose and mouth?
What is the muzzle?
What are the gills?
What is the major organ of the respiratory system for fish that allows them to breathe without lungs?
What is the term for the top of a bird's head?
What is the crown?
What protects the brain in the axial skeleton?
What component of blood maintains water in the bloodstream?
What is albumin?
What do you call the loose fold of skin under the chin of an animal, most commonly seen in female rabbits?
What is the dewlap?
What are the extensions of the epidermal layer of skin that provide protection for aquatic animals?
What are the scales?
What do you call the feathers that cover the ears of a bird?
What are the ear coverts?
Name the upper leg bone.
What is the femur?
What transports oxygen in the blood?
What is hemoglobin?
Identify the fleshy part of the side of an animal between the ribs and the rump.
What is the loin or flank?
What do you call the transparent layer that covers the eye of a snake?
What is the brille?
Identify the fleshy part of the beak that surrounds the nostrils.
What is the cere?
What structure is a reservoir for calcium and phosphorus in the body?
What is the skeleton?
What is the pathway of blood flow from the right atrium to the right ventricle?
Blood from the vena cava flows into the right atrium and then into the right ventricle.
What is the name of the joint above the hock in the hind leg?
What is the stifle?
Name the web of skin that allows fish to move through water.
What are the fins?
What is the ring encircling the eye of a bird called?
What is the orbital ring?
Which part of the skeletal system is made up of the shoulder blade?
What is the scapula?
What type of blood vessel carries blood away from the heart?
What are arteries?
Name the part of an animal's body just above the elbow of the foreleg.
What is the shoulder?
What are the epidermal scales found on turtles called?
What are the scutes?
Name the smaller feathers that cover the base of the quills of the wing and tail feathers.
What are the wing coverts?
What is produced in the hollow center of long bones?
What is bone marrow?
What are the smallest blood vessels that transfer nutrients and gases?
What are the capillaries?