Bones
The term that refers to all of the bones of an animal.
What is a skeleton?
The first major organ that digests food.
What is the stomach?
Frogs are one example of this creature, neither mammal nor reptile.
What is an amphibian?
The colors of the Pacific Tree Frog.
What are reddish brown, green, and grey?
The largest salamander in the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Pacific Giant Salamander?
The bone that protects the brain.
What is the skull?
These organs on the top of the head are kept above water to see what is going on.
What are the eyes?
Amphibians do not produce their own body heat, and so they are called by this term.
What is cold-blooded?
Males have a "tail" which is actually a reproductive organ.
Dry granular skin with a bright orange underside.
What is the appearence of the rough-skinned newt?
This bone is the defining feature of all vertebrates.
What is the spine? (or vertabra)
This frog organ has three chambers, beats regularly, and is also a muscle.
What is the heart?
The one continent where there are no native amphibians.
Where is Antarctica?
Where the Cascades Frog hibernates.
Where is submerged in the mud under around a foot of water?
This feature of this salamander's foot that gives it its name.
What is the long fourth toe of the long-toed salamander?
The longest bone in the leg.
What is the fibula?
These two spongy organs are used for gas exchange.
What are the lungs?
One way amphibians reduce the spread of diseases in humans.
What is eating disease disease-carrying insects?
A triangle on the nose and a darkish eye stripe.
What are the markings on the Coastal Tailed Frog's face?
Washington's most poisonous newt.
What is the Rough-Skinned Newt?
Frogs don't have these bones that in humans protect the heart and lungs.
What are the ribs?
This organ produces digestive juices to break down fats.
What is the gallbladder?
Why we know very little about the third type of amphibian.
What is because they live underground or underwater?
The strategy used by the Cascades Frog to ward off danger.
What is "quickly leaping into the water and diving headfirst into the substrate"?
Paedomorphosis or Neoteny.
What is maturing and reproducing in the aquatic form?