Nervous System and Senses
This part of the brain coordinates movement and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
This is the domain that all animals fall under.
What is Eukarya?
These structures enables fish to get oxygen from water.
What are gills?
This organ connects the throat of the fish to the stomach
What is the esophagus?
This organ can fill with air to control the depth of fish swimming.
What is the swim bladder?
Movement in the water is detected by these receptors on the side of a fish.
What is the lateral line system?
This is the phylum that reptiles belong to.
What is chordata?
This is the moveable flap that helps pump water through fish.
What is the operculum?
This sac-like organ is larger in carnivorous fish to hold larger prey but smaller in other fish to allow a constant stream of food to enter.
What is the stomach?
These are large groups of fish swimming together to increase chances of reproduction and decrease chances of being eaten.
What are schools?
This part of the brain controls responses to senses.
What is the cerebrum?
This is the class that frogs and salamanders belong to.
What is amphibians?
This is the process by which oxygen moves from the water into the blood vessels with a lower concentration of oxygen.
What is diffusion?
Bile is produced to break down this type of molecule.
What is fat?
This is the process by which fish reproduce by releasing reproductive cells into the water.
What is spawning?
This part of the brain would be responsible for processing information related to colors and smells.
What is the cerebrum?
This is the phylum that bugs belong to.
What is arthropoda?
This is how many chambers the heart of a fish has.
What are 2?
This is where bile is stored in-between meals.
What is the gallbladder?
The ampullae of Lorenzini are found in the snout of sharks and other cartilaginous fish. This is the type of signals that these sensory organs detect.
What is electrical?
These are what is controlled by the medulla oblongata.
What are internal organs (heart and lungs)?
Would also accept breathing and heart rate
This is the class that shrimp and crabs belong to.
What is crustacean?
This is the chamber of heart that receives blood.
What is the atrium?
What is the intestine?
This is the term that describes reproductive cells in general (does not specify male vs female).
What are gametes?