Invertebrates
Mammals
Birds
Fish
Herptiles
100
The term used to describe having five pairs of appendages.
What are Decapods?
100
Coastal and marine mammals
What are the two categories for mammals discussed in this course?
100
Most shorebirds migrate here to breed.
What is the Arctic and sub-Arctic?
100
They are the Florida State Fish.
What are the Sailfish (Saltwater) and the Large mouth Bass (Freshwater)?
100
This animal is Florida's most abundant nesting sea turtle.
What is the Atlantic Loggerhead (Caretta caretta)?
200
All possess stinging cells.
What do all Cnidarians possess in common?
200
2/3 of these creatures have been injured by boat propellers.
What are manatees?
200
This gull nests in Florida.
What is the Laughing Gull (Larus atricilla)?
200
The males carry the eggs for this lifelong pair.
What is a Lined Sea Horse?
200
These reptiles are reported to have the strongest bite of any animal on Earth.
What are crocodiles?
300
A phylum that includes four classes: Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Cephalopoda, and Polyplacophora.
What is a Mollusk?
300
The skull and teeth
What are 2 good indicators of what a particular mammal eats and what role it plays in the food web?
300
The art of field identification can be simplified by recognizing this general information.
What is the gross morphological characteristic/profile?
300
These are the two major classes of “true” fish in existence today.
What are Bony Fish and Cartilaginous Fish?
300
This is a coastal legless lizard that is named because its tail breaks easily.
What is the Island Glass Lizard (Ophisaurus compressus)?
400
They seem to appear from nowhere, run, and suddenly disappear.
What is a Ghost Crab?
400
Marsh rabbit, Key Deer, Fl. Salt-marsh vole, Round-tail muskrat, Marsh Rice rat, Beach Mice, Cotton Mouse, River Otter, Raccoon, & Bats.(
What are examples of coastal mammals?
400
This is the lightest colored sandpiper on the beach.
What is the Sanderling (Calidris alba)?
400
It is the Tail Fin adaptation that allows for continuously strong, fast swimmers.
What is a Forked Tail Fin?
400
This non-venomous fierce biter sprays foul musk and can be found in the coastal marshes of Volusia and Indian River Counties.
What is a Salt Marsh Snake (Nerodia clarkii)?
500
Their life cycle goes from plank tonic to benthic to plank tonic.
What is the life cycle of jellyfish?
500
Marine mammals divided into 2 groups-toothed and baleen and include whales and dolphins
What are Cetaceans?
500
This Latin word, pertaining to the Fish Crow, means bone breaker.
What is ossifragus?
500
These are just 3 of the 6 types of food fish eat.
What are Zoo plankton; Phytoplankton; Bottom debris; Invertebrates; Vertebrates; and Opportunistic Feeders?
500
This term is derived from Greek meaning "double life".
What is amphibian?
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