Teuthology: The Study of cephalopods
Because they do not have backbones, cephalopods are classified as these.
What are invertebrates?
An otolaryngologist is a doctor who specializes in issues affecting the ears, nose, and this area that contains our larynx or "voice box."
What is the throat?
Hedgehogs are in this class of the animal kingdom.
What is Mammalia or the Mammal class?
Happiness helps motivate us to ________ a beneficial action. This can help us survive.
What is complete or repeat?
This root word is from Greek for "color."
What is "chroma?"
Octopuses, squids, and other cephalopods are animals classified as belonging in the _________________ phylum.
a. Amphibian b. Mollusca c. Arachnid
What is the Mollusca?
The epiglottis is a leaf-shaped structure that is similar to a switch-track for trains.
It stays upright and open when we are taking a breath, but it closes when we swallow to prevent food and drink from entering these.
What are our lungs? (or the trachea and the lungs)
The closest animal relatives that hedgehogs have are shrews, moles, and the adorably named, ____________.
What are moon rats? (I really want a moon rat story book.)
This is the ability to recognize, understand, and share the feelings, thoughts, and perspectives of another person. When we display sadness, we can evoke this in our fellow primates. This can help us survive.
What is empathy?
"Photo" is a root word that means ________ in Ancient Greek.
What is "light?"
The word "cephalopod" is formed from the Greek words for these two body parts.
What are the words for head and feet?
Sound waves cannot travel in a ___________.
What is a vacuum?
Sound needs a medium (matter) to be transmitted.
Though they can eat other foods, hedgehogs have evolved to eat small invertebrates and are considered _____________.
What are insectivores?
This emotion functions as a "behavioral immune system." This can help us survive.
What is disgust?
"Iridio" is from Ancient Greek for this meteorological phenomenon.
What is a rainbow?
Octopuses use the fantastic -phores: chromatophores, iridophores, leucophores, and photophores to change their appearance.
Of these special cells, this one uses the protein called reflectin to reflect light back out of the cells to make shimmery greens, blues, golds, and silvers.
What are iridophores?
The number of waves that pass a fixed point in a unit of time is know as its _________________.
a. amplitude b. wavelength c. frequency
What is its frequency?
Hedgehogs are native to the continents of Europe, Asia, and ________.
What is Africa?
This emotion plays a role in how we address resource allocation as social animals. Little babies have been shown to exhibit this emotion when puppets are behaving "unfairly."
What is anger? (and yes, it can also help us to survive.)
"Leuco" is a Greek-derived root word for this color.
What is white?
This is the number of tentacles possessed by an octopus.
What is zero?
If a one sound is louder than another, that first sound would be expected to have _____________ amplitude than the second sound.
What is higher?
(An electric guitar "amp" is the thing that makes it louder and is named for amplitude.)
Hedgehogs have spines made largely of this protein that is also in human hair.
What is keratin?
When we experience fear, we may react to fight, to flee, or this third "f."
What is freeze?
This Greek-derived root word means "bearer" or "carrier" and is often found at the ends of words used to describe cells with a particular property or color.
What is "phore?"