Amphibians
Define a tetrapod.
What is a 4 footed animal?
What are 2 functions of feathers?
What is flight feathers and down feathers?
Flying and insulation
What is the function of reptile scales?
What is protect from injury and prevent water loss?
Name three traits of arthropods.
What is exoskeleton, segmented limbs, segmented body, bilateral symmetry, open circulatory system, and highly developed sense organs.
What purpose do gills serve?
What is allows fish to breathe in oxygen while underwater?
Describe how the environmental temperature affect the level of activity for amphibians.
What is the amphibian cannot control body temperature, therefore, they bask in the sun and sleep or brumate in cold?
What is the sac like structure used to store and moisten food?
What is crop?
What is the diaphragm?
What is the abdominal muscle that expands the lungs capacity to allow inhalation?
Define molting.
What is the process of shedding the old exoskeleton?
Describe function of fish scales.
What is provides protection from predators and parasites, reduces friction in water, and provides flexible covering to allow movement?
Describe the function of the cloaca.
What is the cloaca is a passageway for urine, feces, and gametes to leave the body?
How do birds keep lungs filled with oxygenated air?
What are air sacs?
What 2 senses do reptiles use to detect prey?
What is keen eyesight, sense of smell, and some have a heat sensing organ?
Name 2 structures that allow arthropods to breath.
What is absorption through the body, and breathing through the fringe like gills or trachea?
How do fish use muscles to swim?
What is the muscles contract from head to tail to propel in water?
List 5 stages of the frog life cycle.
What is eggs, tadpole, tadpole with 2 legs, tadpole with 4 legs, frog?
Name a behavior of bird behavior that shows great intelligence.
Repeating words, puzzles, recognize family members/owners, remembers past faces?
Name the purpose of an amniotic egg.
Prevents drying out and provides protection to reptile.
Name 3 head appendages.
What is the compound eye, antennae, or mandible?
Define the swim bladder.
What is the a balloon like internal organ in fish that contains gas? Move the fish up and down.
List 3 classes of amphibians.
What is frogs/toads, Salamanders/newts, Caecilians?
What is the purpose of courtship in birds?
What is mark territory and find a mate?
How would a lizard stay warm on a cold day?
What is lay on basking rock in sun?
List 2 advantages of flight insects.
What is Escape, aids in searching for food and mates?
Describe 2 ways fish can sense prey.
What is Vision through eyes, Hearing, sense the water flow changes around them?