Mollusks
True or False: Mollusks who move slowly (like snails) have a closed circulatory system
False
True or False: Spiders have 3 segmented bodies like an insect does!
False- they have a cephalothorax
Is a bird an endotherm or ectotherm?
Endotherm
Fish have a ________ chambered heart and amphibians have a _________ chambered heart
Alligators have a _________ chambered heart
4
What might a herbivorous mollusk use their radula for?
scraping off plant or algae material from rocks
What is the name of the special structures spiders have that helps them breathe?
What are the 2 functions of feathers?
Insulation and flight
List 2 ways that amphibians breath?
through their skin
lungs
gills
lining in their mouth
The ______________ collects wastes from the embryo in an amniotic egg.
allantois
A membrane that surrounds the internal organs of a mollusk and secretes the shell is called a ____________
mantle
____________ are mouthparts that allow arthropods to chew and bite
mandibles
What is the function of the crop in a bird's digestive system?
Stores food
What structure acts as an extra eyelid in amphibians and keeps their eyes from drying out
nictating membrane
What is the special organ that reptiles have that allows them to "taste odors"
Jacobson's Organ
What is a keystone species (200 points) and give an example of a mollusk that we discussed that is considered a keystone species
A keystone species' health influences the health of the environment; an example are hard clams that feed on algae- if you don't have enough, you can have algal blooms
Crab claws are called _________________.
chelipeds
Birds have special bones called _____________ bones that are full of air and allow them to fly.
pneumatic
What fish lack jaws?
hagfish and lampreys
Name two animals (doesn't have to be reptiles) that can do geomagnetic imprinting?
salmon
sea turtles
Cephalopods include octopus. What else do they include (3 things but if you can get 2, I will give you the points)
chambered nautilus
squid
cuttlefish
Typhoid
What is a hummingbird's heart rate (in beats per minute)
500 bpm
This fish cleans coral by eating algae that might otherwise destroy it.
Parrotfish
There are 4 taxonomical orders of reptiles. List 3 of them (latin names!)
Squamata
Tuatara
Testudines
Crocodilia