General Info
Name of the group that we are studying today
What are amphibians?
Body part of a frog that is very characteristic of frogs more than anything else
What are legs?
Animal that closely resemble salamanders and people confuse with pretty often
What are lizards?
Animals that closely resemble caecilians and people confuse with with pretty often
What are snakes?
What are worms?
This is the name of the teacher teaching today's lesson
Coach Bowden
Term that describes an animal that is not able to regulate and produce its own internal temperature
What is cold-blooded?
Organs found in the skin of frogs that secrete substances, including poison sometimes
What are glands?
Term that describes a salamander that has retained juvenile features
What is neotonic?
Structures on the skin of caecilians that other amphibians do not have?
What are scales?
What room number is this class in
Term that describes when the skin allows things to pass through
What is permeability?
Scientific name for frogs
What is Anura?
Scientific name for salamanders
What is Caudata?
Scientific name for caecilians
What is Gymnophiona?
What region contains a poison dart frog?
South America
Term that describes the typical life cycle of an amphibian
What is metamorphosis?
Largest frog in the world
What is the goliath frog?
Largest salamander in the world
Word that describes a ceacilian lifestyle (i.e. where it spends most of its time); a lifestyle characterized by living underground
What is fossorial?
Length of Prionosuchus, the largest amphibian to have ever lived
What is 30 feet?
Number of species of amphibians currently described
What is 8,100?
Number of frog species currently described
What is 5,000?
Number of salamander species currently described
What is 500?
Number of caecilian species currently described
What is 200?
Are amphibians poisonous or venomous?
poisonous