Fish
What is the largest known fish
Whale Shark
What substances make up the outer shell of a bird-egg?
calcium carbonate
What is the hindmost section of an insect?
abdomen
What is the longest living animal?
Lizards are bale to change colors because of color-containing cells beneath their skin called ____________
Chromatophores
What is the largest lepidopteran?
Hercules moth
What is the substance that makes up a bird's feathers?
Keratin
Largest order of insects
Coleoptera
What group of cartilaginous fish includes skates and sawfish
rays
What group consists of carnivorous hunting birds?
birds of prey
What insect is considered to have the most organized colonies and be the most social?
The ant
What is the upper half of a turtle's shell called?
Carapace
The only two known venomous lizards are the Mexican beaded lizard and the _____________
Gila Monster
Metamorphosis
Birds can save energy by flapping for a few seconds and then gliding for a few seconds; this behavior is called ______________.
Intermittent flight
True Bugs
Hemiptera
What are the tooth like scales found on sharks?
Denticles
What is the fastest flying bird?
peregrine falcon
Because insects grow and become too big for their skeleton, they must go through a process of ____________
Molting
Crocodilians
A lizard-like reptile with a parietal eye is a __________
Tuatara
What is the worm-like growing stage of complete metamorphosis called?
Larva
Feathers that provide lightweight insulation.
down
Includes Flies and Mosquitoes
Diptera
Paired holes used for inhalation by sharks and rays are called _______________.
Spiracles
what term refers to a chick that hatches with insulating feathers and can run or swim soon after birth?
precocial
The egg laying organ of an insect is a ___________
Ovipositor
The world's smallest snakes are ________________
blind snakes
The Old-World lizards that are characterized by long necks and tails, powerful legs, and long, forked tongues are __________________
Monitor Lizards
What type of structure holds a moth during its pupal stage?
Cocoon
Refers to a birds feathers
plumage
Includes the most common social insects
Hymenoptera
What type of cartilaginous fish lacks jaws and does not have a sucking organ?
Hagfish
What fluid feeds an unhatched chick?
yolk
Biological control
The type of crocodilian that has a broad snout and hidden teeth when its jaw is closed is known as the _______________
Alligator
The group of amphibians that consist of frogs and toads is the _________
anurans
Eyespots help a Luna moth to __________
Scare predators
What special organ allows birds to produce sound?
Wings are covered in scales
Lepidoptera
The gills of body fish are covered by a hard, movable, protective plate called a _____________.
operculum
what is the food storage sac located in a birds esophagus?
crop
What is the scientific term for the "feelers" on an insects head?
antennae
Snakes venom that attacks the circulatory system is called ______________venom
hemotoxic
The largest living lizard is the ___________
Tokay gecko
The largest family of butterflies is the ____________butterflies.
Brush-footed
Because birds are designed with built-in compasses, they can follow the same migration route year after year. What are these routes called?
Flyways
Includes lacewings and antlions
Neuroptera
A fish's W-shaped bands of skeletal muscule are called _________________.
Myomeres
Preening
Most insects have ____________ pair of wings?
Two
The protective layer of a reptile egg is _____________
Amnion
Animals that regulate their body temperature by external means are ____________
Cold-Blooded
Butterflies and moths drink nectar using a structure called a ______________.
Proboscis
The large ridge of a bird's sternum that provides an anchor for the flight muscles is the __________
Keel
Includes dragonflies and damselflies
Odonata