Fish Characteristics
Bony Fish
Agnathan Fish
Cartilaginous Fish
Fishy Things
100
Fish takes up 25 % of all animal protein.
What is the most percent of all animal protein?
100
Bony fish take up 95% of all species.
What is the % that bony fish take up?
100
For mouths agnathan fish have sucker mouths.
What do agnathan fish have for mouths?
100
Cartilaginous fish are made up of tons of cartilage.
What are cartilaginous fish made of?
100
Gills are membranes filled with tiny blood vessels.
What are gills?
200
Bony, cartilaginous, and agnathan are the three kinds of fish.
What are the three kinds of fish?
200
Bony fish are the only fish with swim bladders.
What do only bony fish have?
200
Agnathan fish are the oldest fish known to man?
What is the oldest fish known to man?
200
Sharks, skates, and rays are examples of cartilaginous fish.
Some examples of cartilaginous fish are.....?
200
Most fish have fins to help them move through the water.
Most fish have what?
300
Fish have close to 29,000 species which puts them at the largest group of vertebrates on earth.
What is the largest group of vertebrates on earth?
300
The swim bladder controls their depth.
The swim bladder helps control what?
300
Some examples of Jawless fish are lampreys and hagfish.
Lampreys and Hagfish are what kinds of fish?
300
Cartilaginous fish have dermal teeth on their skin.
What do cartilaginous fish have on their skin?
300
Fish have streamlined bodies to help them cut through the water.
What do fish have to help them cut through the water?
400
Bony fish have a swim bladder.
If you have a swim bladder that means you are a _________ fish.
400
Bony fish have bone skeletons.
Bony fish have what kind of skeletons?
400
Jawless is also used to describe agnathan fish.
What is another word for agnathan fish?
400
Cartilaginous fish have 10 x the size brain that other fish have.
How big are cartilaginous fish's brains?
400
If a swim bladder deflates then the bony fish will sink.
If a swim bladder deflates what happens?
500
If you are ecothermic you are cold-blooded.
Ecothermic means you are?
500
You would normally see Bony fish at the market.
What are most of the fish you see at a market?
500
Agnathan fish have no jaw.
Agnathan fish have no _______?
500
Dermal teeth are tiny teeth on cartilaginous fish's skin.
What are dermal teeth?
500
Most fish have thin, bony, scales for protection.
Most fish have _________?
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