Life Cycles
The life cycle of a reptile is as follows. This is the first stage.
1) _________
2) Hatchling 3) Juvenile 4) Adult
What is Egg?
The flap over the gills of most fishes
What is operculum?
Most amphibians lose these as they grow into adults, but some kinds of salamanders, such as mud puppies and waterdogs, never lose these.
What are gills?
A species of sea turtle that can be spotted in the warm waters off the coast of the U.S. It is named for its large, block-like head.
What is the loggerhead turtle?
The first fossilized sea creature that Mary Anning discovered on the beach
What is the ichthyosaurus?
The life cycle of a frog is as follows. This is the second and third stages. (same word in both blanks)
1) Eggs
2) ________ 3) ________ with legs
4) Froglet 5) Adult Frog
What is 1) tadpole and 2) tadpole with legs?
An extremely sensitive body feature on fishes that enables them to sense vibrations in the water
What is the lateral line?
Specially designed nostrils that can close up when a sea snake goes underwater and open when it comes up for air, much like the blowhole of a whale
What are valved nostrils?
The species of sea turtle that is occasionally seen in American waters and is named for its pointed beak
What is the hawksbill sea turtle?
Had snake-like bodies, tiny flippers, and paddle-shaped tales
What are mosasaurs?
What a fish hatches into from an egg
What are larvae?
The balloon-like part in a fish's body that is filled with gas and can get larger or smaller depending on whether the fish wants to remain higher or lower in the water
What is a swim bladder?
Lower plate of a turtle's shell
What is the plastron?
A species of sea turtle that can be found on the east coast of Florida. It gets its name from the color of its body fat.
What is the green sea turtle?
What we call a fossil that is found with the bones present in their proper places almost as if they were still all attached to each other
What is an articulated fossil?
What we call free-swimming larvae from the time they hatch to their juvenile stages
What are fry?
Fins that keep the fish from rolling side to side
What is dorsal fin?
Upper dome of a turtle's shell
What is the carapace?
A type of ridley sea turtle that is considered the most endangered of all sea turtles.
What is the kemps ridley sea turtle?
Stomach stones found in the belly of a plesiosaur. They moved around in its stomach crushing the shells of the animals it ate
What are gastroliths?
What we call a fish in the fourth stage of development. The fish's fins are developed, and it can swim against the current.
What is a juvenile?
Rings that are formed as the fish's scales grow
What are circuli?
The plates covering the carapace and the plastron of the sea turtle. Made of keratin, like our fingernails.
What are scutes?
The species of sea turtle that grows the largest, dives the deepest and travels the farthest of all the sea turtles.
What is the leatherback sea turtle?
Long-necked, long-tailed lizard-like creature with four webbed feet and sharp, pointy teeth. Roughly 10 ft. long.
What is a nothosaur?