Teuthology: The Study of cephalopods
Squid and cuttlefish have eight arms and ________ tentacles.
What are two?
The human voice box or larynx has two of these which muscles can change pull on to change tension.
What are vocal chords or vocal folds?
Hedgehogs rely primarily on these two senses to navigate the world.
What are smell and hearing?
A mental and physical reaction to a perceived threat, either real or imagined is broadly called _______.
What is "fear?"
Put these in order from highest to lowest based on the root words in their names:
Glottis, Supraglottis, Subglottis
What is Supraglottis, Glottis, then Subglottis?
This cephalopod is an outlier in the group and can have over 90 limbs.
What is a nautilus?
When we use air to vibrate our vocal cords, they make sound. When we speak without vibrating our vocal cords, it is called this.
What is whispering?
Baby hedgehogs or "hoglets" are born with spines concealed beneath their skin. This skin is filled with _______, but dries out shortly after birth to allow the spines to "come out."
What is fluid?
A persisting and intense fear-response to a specific thing or idea is called ____________.
What is a "phobia?"
The curved Hyoid bone is shaped for like this letter of the English alphabet.
What is a "u?"
Cephalopods have blueish blood because it uses this element to transport oxygen because it is more efficient doing so at low temperatures and in low oxygen environments than our iron-based red blood is.
What is copper?
Because children generally have shorter vocal folds than adults, their voices are _________ in pitch.
What is higher?
Hedgehogs have very simple digestion systems. They don't need the fiber in fruits and veggies to help is work properly, instead this protein found in the shells of bugs and beetles is broken down to serve that function.
What is chitin?
While fears are fleeting and don't significantly disrupt a person's life, phobias are ___________ and do significantly disrupt person's life.
What is persistent?
"Eulipotyphla," a category which contains hedgehogs, roughly means "truly fat and ______" in Ancient Greek.
What is "blind?"
The colossal squid has the largest ________ of any living animal on planet Earth.
What are eyes? (They're about as big as a soccer ball!)
Musicians from Tuva (an area that spans parts of Russia and Mongolia) have developed an art form that allows for more than one voice to be heard emanating simultaneously from a single artist. This art form is called this.
What is Tuvan Throat-Singing?
The Orbicularis Panniculi is a ring of muscle that allows a hedgehog to ball up for protection and functions similarly to the ________ on a purse, hoodie, or sleeping bag.
What is a drawstring?
The four most common phobia categories are situational, medical, environmental, and __________.
What is animal?
Ophidiophobia is a fear of ________.
What are snakes?
Octopuses have a donut-shaped brain and this many hearts.
What are three hearts?
Our lungs power our speech with air, and our voice box uses that air to vibrate, and this group of structures shape those vibrations and air on the way out of our mouths.
What are our articulators? (The tongue, the lips, and the teeth, for example)
This word describes a biological process similar to hibernation, but functions as an adaptation for HOT climates.
What is aestivation?
Statistically, the most effective form of treatment for those experiencing phobias is ___________ therapy.
What is exposure therapy?
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is a fear of ________________, and comes partially from the Latin root "sesquipedalis" which means "a foot and a half long."
What is the fear of long words?
("Hippopoto" was added because hippopotamuses are large animals and "monstro" is the Latin root for something monstrous.)