Chordates/ Jawed Fish/ Tetrapods
Amphibians & Amniotes
Reptiles
Birds
Mammals
100
The openings that function in feeding or respiration.
What are gills
100
The first tetrapods on land.
What are amphibians.
100
Reptile that lives inside shell that is attached to skeleton as self defense.
What is a turtle.
100
Recurring pattern of movement from one region to another.
What is migration.
100
Only amniote that has hair and nourishes its offspring with milk.
What is a mammal.
200
All fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals alive today are this.
What are Craniates.
200
All amphibians are descendants of these.
What are tetrapods.
200
Name two characteristics of a reptile.
What are cold blooded, females fertilize internally, both sexes have cloaca.
200
Name three characteristics of a bird.
What are warm blooded, feathered, have cloaca, have scales on legs, and lay eggs.
200
An egg laying mammal.
What is a monotreme.
300
Bagged shaped animals, such as tunicates.
What are Uruchordates.
300
The most familiar amphibians with more than 4800 named species that must always return to water.
What are frogs and toads.
300
Reptile that evolved from short legged, long bodied lizards.
What is a snake.
300
The main difference between these two classes is that they are warm blooded.
What are birds and reptiles.
300
The three lineages of mammals that evolved 130 million years ago.
What are marsupials, monotremes, and eutherians.
400
Kingdom that includes 850 species that have fins, skeleton of cartilage, and five to seven gill slits on both sides.
What are cartilaginous fishes.
400
Descendants of amphibians
What are amniotes.
400
The closest living relatives of birds.
What are crocodiles, alligators, or claimants.
400
Migration is based on this.
What is "biological clock", environmental rhythms, or seasonal changes.
400
First amniotes to branch from stem reptiles in the late Carboniferous.
What are Synapsids
500
Fishes that have separate blood circuits to the lungs.
What are Tetrapods and lungfishes
500
Fossils show that tetrapods were (_______) meaning that they were spending time on land and water.
What are amphibians.
500
Only reptiles that have four-chambered heart like mammals.
What are crocodilians.
500
These animals have the same internal organs which makes them relatives.
What are birds and crocodilians.
500
The capacity to expand on basic activities with novel behaviors.
What is behavioral flexibility.
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