Fish
Amphibians
Reptiles
Birds
Mammals
100
The most common type of fish
What are bony fish?
100
Part of life is lived in water and part on land
What is a "double-life" or amphibians?
100
Thick skin with water tight layer to keep the body moist is found on this animal
What are reptiles?
100
Light skeleton, rapidly beating heart, and strong flight muscles used for this
What is flying?
100
Specialized teeth, mammary glands, large brains, hair are characteristics of these animals
What are mammals?
200
Bony structures covering the skin of bony fishes
What are scales?
200
Aquatic larva of an amphibian
What is a tadpole?
200
Sac-like organ that takes oxygen from the air and delivers it to the blood
What are lungs?
200
Process of grooming and maintaining feathers
What is preening?
200
Warmblooded animals whose body temperature remains stable in cold weather
What are endotherms?
300
System of tiny rows of sense organs along the sides of a fish's body
What is the lateral line?
300
A change from larval to adult form
What is metamorphosis?
300
Egg that holds fluid that protects the embryo
What is an amniotic egg?
300
Process of shedding feathers, skin, or hair and growing new
What is molting?
300
Structure which provides a growing embryo with nutrients and oxygen
What is the placenta?
400
Balloon-like organ that gives bony fish buoyancy
What is a swim bladder?
400
Very sensitive to environmental changes
What are ecological indicators?
400
Coldblooded organisms that change body temperature with surroundings
What are ectotherms?
400
Act of sitting on a nest to keep eggs warm
What is brooding?
400
Mammal that lays eggs with a thick, leathery shell
What is a monotreme?
500
Organ in fish that exchanges oxygen from the water with carbon dioxide in the blood
What are gills?
500
Fertilization outside of the female's body
What is external fertilization?
500
The study of reptiles and amphibians
What is herpetology?
500
The stiff feathers that help determine the shape of a bird
What are contour feathers?
500
Time between fertilization and birth
What is the gestation period?
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