Classification & Characteristics
Characteristics of Chordates
Fish
Amphibians & Reptiles
Mix Bag
100
Name the domain and kingdom that Chordata is classified with?
What is Eukarya and 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.
What is land and water?
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 is Fish, Amphibian, Reptile, Birds, and Mammals?
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 external fertilization?
300
All chordates in some point in their life have this.
What is a notochord?
300
Chordates have slits in their throat area and are know as this.
What are pharyngeal slits?
300
The number of chambers in fish and the name of them.
What is 2 and Aorta and Ventricle?
300
This type of reptiles are extinct.
What are dinosaurs?
300
Name the three chambers that amphibians have.
What is right atrium, left atrium, and ventricle?
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
Name the three types of fish and one example for each.
What is 1. Jawless fish (ex. lamprey and hagfish) , 2. Cartilaginous fish (ex. sharks, skates and rays) 3. Bony (sea bass)
400
Amphibians use these when they are an adult to conduct the process of respiration.
What is lungs?
400
Name the two types of legs that a frog has.
What is hind leg and fore leg?
500
This is the term for an animal whose body does not produce internal heat. Also name one class of animals.
What is ectotherm and examples include fish, amphibians and reptiles?
500
Birds and mammals have these three characteristics for maintaining body temperature.
What is sweat, fur and feathers?
500
These type of fish are known to have a great sense of smell and poor sense of sight.
What are cartilaginous fish?
500
Name the five groups of reptiles.
What are lizard, snake, alligator, crocodile and turtle?
500
This group of reptiles has streamlined body with no legs, no external eyelids, no external ears and only one lug.
What is a snake?
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