All Things Fish
What group of odd-looking cartilaginous fish have gill covers?
What is chimaeras
The wings of an insect are attached to the ?
What is the thorax?
What group of insects have wings covered with tiny scales
What is Lepidoptera
Small, bony plates embedded in a fish's skin that act as a protective covering are called ?
What are scales?
Animals without backbones are called ?
What are invertebrates
What is the scientific term for a fish's gill cover?
What is operculum?
The portion of an insect's body that contains the heart and much of the digestive, respiratory, and excretory systems is the ?
What is the abdomen?
What group of insects is the most common social insects?
What is Hymenoptera?
The unusual cartilaginous fish that lack jaws are the lamprey and ?
What are hagish
The egg-laying female in a colony of bees or ants is the ?
What is the queen
How many chambers does a fish's heart have?
What is two chambers?
In scientific usage, any insect with piercing-sucking moughtparts and a half-wing design is a ?
What is a bug?
What group of insects have tooth-like projections on their mouthparts?
What is order Odonata?
The large fin at the rear of a fish that serves as the fish's propeller and rudder is the ? fin?
What is the caudal fin?
An immature form of an insect that looks much like an adult but has cifferent body propotions and lacks wings is a(n) ?
What is a nymph
What organ allows a fish to sense fain vibrations and pressure changes in the water?
Spiders, ticks, scorpions, and daddy longlegs are classified as ?
What are arachnids ?
What group of insects includes pestilent insects such as flies, mosquitoes, and gnats?
What is Diptera?
A median fin on top of a fish's body is a ? fin?
What is the dorsal fin?
A newly hatched treehopper resembles an adult but is smaller and lacks wings. With every molt, the treehopper grows closer to the adult size and shape. It gains wings in the final molt. Treehoppers undergo what kind of metamorphosis?
The vane-like projections from the front of a fish's gill arches that protect the gills by straining debris from the water are the what?
The exoskeleton of an arthropod is composed of ?
What is chitin?
What group of insects have hard, shell-like forewings?
What is Coleoptera
The largest known fish is the ?
What is the whale shark
The W shaped bands in which a fish's muslces are arranged are called ?
What are myomeres