Vocab
What is the ability to do work or cause change?
energy
The statement energy cannot be created nor destroyed is known as what?
The first law of thermodynamics
What do we call the type of development that amphibians undergo?
metamorphosis or indirect development
What classification of amphibians like the common frog or toad belong to?
Anura
What type of energy can be described as heat?
Thermal energy
What type of energy is defined as the potential energy in the bonds between molecules and atoms?
Chemical energy
The statement energy flows from warmer areas to cooler areas is known as what?
the second law of thermodynamics
The classification of amphibians that includes salamanders are known as what?
Caudata
Which classification of amphibians do the wormlike/snakelike and weird amphibians belong to?
Caecilia
what type of energy can be described as that which is in moving objects?
motion energy
What type of energy is defined as that which chloroplasts capture for photosynthesis? (it comes from the sun)
light energy
The term that describes the notion that the total energy in an isolated system stays the same is what?
energy conservation
What type of animal is an amphibian most likely to prey on?
Insects
What type of creatures are most likely to prey on amphibians?
snakes, raptors
Organisms that can make their own food are known as what?
autotrophs
Amphibians are able to indicate the relative health of an ecosystem, what are they called?
what term is used to describe the total disorder or chaos in a system?
entropy
What do we call the skin of amphibians? (They can bring liquids and gases through their skin and into their system.)
permeable
what do we call the phenomena where amphibians defend a home turf?
territoriality/territorialism
Organisms that must consume other organisms to access energy are called what?
heterotrophs
Neoteny
Which two biological processes clearly show the principles of the first and second laws of thermodynamics?
photosynthesis & cellular respiration
Besides lungs or gills, what can amphibians "breathe" through?
their skin
Amphibian eggs lack *this* quality? What do they lack?
amniotic fluid, amniotic sac, amniotic, etc
What are amphibians in terms of their ability to create their own food?
Heterotrophs