Vocab
Structures
Coloration
Wild Card
Miscellaneous
100
This is the term for nostrils in marine fishes
What are nares?
100
These are whisker-like organs near the mouth of many bottom-dwelling organisms
What are barbels?
100
This type of coloration is used to alert nearby predators of a fish's presence
What is warning coloration?
100
Fast-swimming fish are typically associated with this general body plan:
What is streamlined body plan?
100
This is the term for the larval lamprey
What is an ammocoete?
200
This process refers to how marine fishes exchange gases with their surrounding environments
What is the process of diffusion?
200
This is the term used to describe the short tube that runs from the mouth opening through the pharynx
What is the esophagus?
200
This type of coloration is described as blending in with the environment go hide from a predator or prey
What is cryptic coloration?
200
Marine fishes with elongated bodies are adapted for living in these types of environments:
What are elongated-bodied fishes?
200
This type of marine fish starts life with one eye on each side its head; as the fish develops one eye migrates to the other side
What is a flounder?
300
These are modified gill slits in cartilaginous fishes which allows them to oxygenate the brain, even if covered in sediment
What are spiracles?
300
These are found to project along the inner surface of gills to prevent particles from entering and damaging the delicate tissue
What are gill rakers?
300
This is used as a form of disguise used in open water in which the top of the fish is dark and the underbelly portion is light
What is countershading?
300
These two organs are responsible for blood production in Teleost fish
What are the liver and spleen?
300
The lateral line sensory organ is covered with these type of sensory cells
What are neuromasts?
400
These are plate-like disks that are found on gill filaments in areas with high concentrations of capillaries
What are lamellae?
400
This organ secretes bile needed to break down fat AND is also crucial for production of red blood cells in fish
What is the liver?
400
Bottom-dwelling fish often have their outline broken up with these to help them resemble seaweed
What are irregular skin growths?
400
This type of shark does NOT have to swim continuously in order to oxygenate its body
What is the Nurse Shark?
400
This is the heavily-muscularized chamber of the fish heart
What is the ventricle?
500
This group of marine fishes have evolved four-chambered hearts
What are Teleost fish?
500
Rhythmic contractions of fish locomotion are produced by bands of muscles called
What are myomeres?
500
Name two general areas that help researchers use coloration to understand fish
What is 'color can be indicative of mood and reproductive status?'
500
This type of diet usually causes fish to have a LONGER, COILED intestinal tract
What is grazing/herbivory?
500
All fishes have this type of circulatory system
What is a closed circulatory system/one circuit pathway?
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