It's All Vertebrates
Regulates body temperature by internal means.
What is endotherms?
Fluid that carries abundant oxygen in the body.
What is oxygenated blood?
Helps fish float at a constant depth.
What is the swim bladder?
A period of inactivity during the hot, dry weather of summer.
What is estivation?
They all breathe air, do not experience metamorphosis, have dry, scale skin, and fertilize eggs inside the female's body.
What are reptiles?
A combination of bone and cartilage.
What is endoskeleton?
Transports substance such as oxygen and nutrients throughout the vertebrate's body.
What is the circulatory system?
The largest group of fish.
What are bony fish?
The process that changes an amphibian from a gilled, aquatic organism to an air-breathing organism.
What is metamorphosis?
Most famous extinct reptiles.
What are dinosaurs?
Mammals and birds.
What are the only two endothermic animals?
Made up of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
Fish that have endoskeletons made of cartilage.
What are cartilaginous fish?
A set of tiny teeth that forms a ridge around the rim of the upper jaw.
What is maxillary?
Periodic shedding of skin by reptiles.
What is molting?
What is ectotherms?
Take oxygen from the water and give off carbon dioxide.
What are gills?
Overlapping plates to protect the fish.
What are scales?
Two major groups of amphibians.
What are tailless and tailed amphibians?
Animals that live in shallow waters of streams, rivers, swamps, and lakes.
What are crocodiles and alligators?
A group of living organisms that have a vertebrae, skulls, and living skeletons.
What is a vertebrate?
Esophagus, stomach, small intestines, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, and large intestines.
What are parts of the digestive system?
Way of reproduction for most fish.
What is spawning?
The winter state of inactivity.
What is hibernation?
Uses its tongue that transports particles from the air to a pair of organs on the roof of its mouth to smell.
What are snakes?