Arthropods
Fish
Amphibians
Reptiles
Birds
100
The process of shedding an exoskeleton
What is ecdysis or molting
100
Term for an animal with a spinal cord
What is a chordate?
100
The terms that amphi and bio mean
What is double and life?
100
The added structure in the ventricle that helps keep reptile blood separated
What is a septum?
100
Meaning "ancient wing" this is the first specimen we believe to have been the common ancestor of birds
What is archaeopteryx?
200
The process of changing from larvae to intermediate to adult in arthropods
What is metamorphosis
200
term for a fish with an endoskeleton made of cartilage
What are chondrichtyes
200
The process of appearing bright in terms of warning predators
What is aposematism?
200
The kind of egg that reptiles possess
What is the amniotic egg?
200
The portion of the avian digestive system that stores food before digestion or regurgitation to young
What is the crop?
300
The kind of circulatory system all arthropods have
What is an open circulatory system
300
Term for a fish with an endoskeleton made of bone
What are osteichthyes
300
Possessing warning coloration yet lacking poison or danger to predators
What is Batesian Mimicry?
300
The portion of the egg that nourishes the developing embryo
What is the yolk?
300
Three kinds of feathers and their functions
What is flight (flying), down (warmth), and contour (streamlining and coloration)?
400
The openings on the body in which air enters the trachea system in insects
What are spiracles
400
The term that describes how fish are able to oxygenate their blood up to 90% of O2 content
What is a countercurrent flow?
400
The two loops that make up the amphibian circulatory system
What is the systemic (heart and body) and the pulmonary (heart and lungs)?
400
The portion of the amniotic egg that helps store wastes
What is the allantois?
400
The path of blood through the four chambers of the avian heart
What is the right atrium, right ventricle, (lungs), left atrium, and left ventricle?
500
The tiny openings that allow blood to flow into the insect heart
What are the ostia?
500
What are 4 characteristics of chordates?
What is a postanal tail, pharyngeal slits, notochord, and a dorsal hollow nerve chord
500
Name the chambers of the heart in the order that blood flows through them in amphibians
What is the right atrium, ventricle, left atrium, and ventricle?
500
The kind of movement that most snakes use to move forward
What is lateral undulation?
500
The organs in the digestive system that chemically breaks down food and physically breaks down food
What is the proventriculus (chemical) and gizzard (physical)?
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