Fish
Anatomy
Anatomy
This is the name of the part of a fish's body and sense that has modified scales to "feel" movement around them.
What is their lateral line?
This is the name of the specialized cell in the fish's skin that enables a fish to change color.
What are chromatophors
This is the name of the study of how fish move.
What is fish locomotion
This is what some fish do (like French Grunts or Asian sheepsheads) to display dominance or defend their territory.
What is open their mouths or grunt
This is the term for when fish gather together, often times to breed. They form large groups when usually they aren't found in schools, like white sharks and Goliath Groupers off Jupiter, Florida's coast.
What is an aggregation
This is the name of the party on a fish's body that helps it be buoyant in the ocean.
What is the swim bladder or air bladder
This is a coloration that some fish use to let a predator know that they don't taste good or "say" don't mess with me.
What is warming coloration
This is the name of the scientist that studies fish locomotion at Harvard.
Who is Dr George Lauder
This is what some fish species do as a way to appear larger to predators and protect themselves... they form large groups called...
What are schools
This type of fish pairs off and will "dance" together as part of their reproductive behavior or courtship. The male of this species will carry the young in a pouch.
What are seahorses
This is the name of a fish's body part that contains their ootilith.
What is the ear?
This type of coloration is like camouflage for a fish...a way to blend in to its environment.
What is cryptic coloration
True or false: All fish move in the same way
What is FALSE
Name one reason why fish form schools
(Answers will vary) (protection, swimming efficiency, feed, intimate predators)
This is the term for for external fish reproduction when species of fish release their gametes into the water.
What is spawning or broadcast spawning
This is the part of a fish's body that contains the capillaries in the gills which help it breathe.
What is the lamallae?
This type of coloration refers to fish that have stripes, bars, or spots to break up the body of a fish, like a spade fish or sheepshead.
What is disruptive coloration?
This is the main part of the fishs body that helps move forward.
What is the Caudal Fin
This is the term for a regular pattern of movements of fish that go from one place to another, year after year, to find food, find a mate, or give birth. White sharks, bluefin tuna, and salmon are examples that do this.
What is migrate/ migration
True or False : All fish reproduce in the same way
What is False
This is the name of a fish's body part that contains the spiral valve for digestion.
What is the intestine
This is the name of the crystals in the chromatophors that give fish an iridescence or shine.
What are Iridophors?
This is the name of the bands of muscles in the fish's body that contract to help the fish move.
What are myomeres
This is the term for Marine fish that migrate to fresh water to breed.
What are andromous fishes
This is the term for sharks that reproduce via egg cases
What is oviparity or oviparous