Key Terms
This is the basic unit of structure and function in living things.
What is the Cell?
The term Amphibian means this, and comes from the fact they begin life in the water and spend their adulthood on land.
What is "Double life?"
This is known as the balanced arrangement of parts, characteristic of many animals.
What is Symmetry?
This is an ectothermic vertebrate that has lungs and scaly skin. It's entire life is spent on dry land.
What is a Reptile?
He is the captain of the Mimi, who has a grandson of the same name.
Who is Clement Tyler Granville?
A group of similar cells that perform a specific function is called this.
What is a Tissue?
Amphibians are broken up into two groups (salamanders and frogs/toads) - one who keeps this as adults, and another that sheds it early in life.
What is a Tail?
This type of symmetry is when one line divides an animal into equal halves that are mirror images.
What is Bilateral?
To adapt to and survive in extremely dry conditions, a reptile's skin, kidneys, even their eggs are designed to conserve this.
What is Water?
The crew of the Mimi are taking a census of these types of whales.
What are Humpback Whales?
A group of several different tissues, they perform more complex functions to maintain stable body conditions.
What are Organs?
During metamorphosis, most amphibians lose their gills, as they no longer need to breathe underwater, and develop these so they can breathe when on land.
What are the Lungs?
This type of symmetry occurs when an object has many lines of symmetry that all go through a central point (think a starfish).
What is Radial?
To shield their skin, reptiles have these, which act as plates. Over time, the reptile sheds them, replacing the old ones with new ones.
What are Scales?
The Voyage of the Mimi marked the television debut of this well-known actor and filmmaker, whose recent movies have seen him take on the role of Batman.
Who is Ben Affleck?
One of the main functions of animals, this is the act of passing the characteristics of two parents to an offspring in order to continue the species.
What is Reproduction?
This body system changes - from a single loop and two-chambered heart to a double loop and three-chambered heart - between birth and adulthood in amphibians.
What is Circulatory?
Most animals have either bilateral or radial symmetry, except for most sponges, which have this.
What is No Symmetry?
The earliest vertebrates were these, the largest reptiles to ever walk the planet, and also the first to have legs positioned directly beneath their bodies. Dr. Ian Malcolm would suggest we never try to clone these animals...
What are Dinosaurs?
On the show, the Mimi sails in the waters off the coast of this New England state.
What is Massachusetts?
Animals with a backbone are called this, and they are classified together in one phylum, or group.
What are Vertebrates?
While most tadpoles are herbivores, adult salamanders, frogs, and toads begin to feed on small animals, becoming this.
What is a Carnivore?
Animals with bilateral symmetry have these at their front ends that pick up information about what is in front of them.
What are Sense Organs?
Both large, carnivorous reptiles, the difference between alligators and crocodiles come down to the shape and appearance of these two facial features.
What are the Snout and the Teeth?
When late joining his crew mates on the Mimi, Arthur Spencer brings this on board, which he is told to stow by the captain.
What is a Boombox?