Classification & Characteristics
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100

Name kingdom that Chordata is classified with?

What is kingdom Animalia?

100
Means to have a backbone.
What is vertebrates?
100
Fish have these to swim.
What are fins?
100

Many amphibians spend their adulthood on this and return here to reproduce.

Why is land and water essential for survival of an amphibian?

100
This type of fish have no scales.
What is jawless fish?
200

Name the five classes that are associated with the phylum Chordata.

What are Fish, Amphibian, Reptile, Birds, and Mammals classified under?

200
This is a stable internal conditions.
What is a homeostasis?
200
Fish use these to obtain oxygen.
What are gills?
200
Name the three groups of amphibians.
What are salamanders, frogs and toads?
200

Fish reproduce using this type of sexual reproduction.

What is oviparous and external fertilization?

300
All chordates in some point in their life have this.
What is a notochord?
300

Chordates have pouches in their throat area and are know as this.

What are pharyngeal pouches?

300
The number of chambers in fish and the name of them.
What is 2 and Aorta and Ventricle?
300

Alimentary canal, urinary and reproductive tracts
open into a common chamber

What is cloaca?

300

Covered by dry and cornified skin, epidermal scales or scutes

What are the body features in reptiles?

400
The backbone is part of this and means inside skeleton.
What is endoskeleton?
400
An animal whose body regulates its own temperature is know as this.
What is endotherm?
400

Give three examples under class chondrichthyes.

Torpedo, Trygon, Scoliodon, Pristis, Carcharodon

400
Amphibians use these when they are an adult to conduct the process of respiration.
What is lungs?
400

6-15 pairs of gill slits, have sucking and circular mouth without jaws.

What are characteristics of cyclostomes?

500

This is the term for an animal whose body does not produce internal heat. Also name one class of animals.

What is poikilotherm and examples include fish, amphibians and reptiles?

500

Mammals have these three characteristics for maintaining body temperature.

Who has mammary glands and body covered with hair?

500

These fishes have air bladder and 4 pairs of gills covered by operculum.

What are characteristics of bony fish?

500

This represents the ear in amphibians.

What is tympanum?

500

Endoskeleton is fully ossified (bony) and the long bones are hollow with air cavities (pneumatic).

What are the adaptations in birds that help them in flight?

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