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Characteristics of Chordates
Vertebrate Nutrition and Reproduction
Vertebrate Behavior
Fish
Amphibians and Reptiles
100
This is one of the major division of the skeleton that includes the vertebral column, skull, and the ribs.
What is the axial skeleton?
100
Animals that eat meat.
What are carnivores.
100
The behavior that the organisms has from birth and does not need to develop
What is inborn behavior?
100
In order for fish to respire, they need a constant flow of water through these organs.
What is gills?
100
Although a frog's skin is moist and smooth, other amphibians such as many toads have this kind of skin.
What is dry, rough, warty skin?
200
The type of circulatory system that al vertebrates have.
What is a closed circulatory system?
200
Animals that lay eggs are called this.
What is oviparous?
200
This type of behavior is a response learned by experience.
What is conditioned behavior?
200
Bony fish can move to different depths by adjusting the amount of gas in this organ.
What is an air bladder?
200
The Jacobson's organs in snakes are sensitive to this.
What is odor or chemicals?
300
The top of body temperature that varies with the temperature of the environment.
What is ectothermic?
300
Animals that eat both plants and meat.
What are omnivores?
300
This type of behavior can be expressed as the ability to use knowledge to manipulate the environment or the ability to communicate.
What is intelligent behavior?
300
This is the sensory organ of fish that picks up low-frequency underwater vibrations and pressure stimuli.
What is the lateral line?
300
Pit vipers differ from true vipers in that they can sense.
What is heat?
400
These are toxins that affect the red blood cells.
What are hemotoxins?
400
Describes a type of animal that brings forth young that have been nurtured through a placenta.
What is viviparous?
400
This is a type of inborn behavior that is automatic or involuntary as a response to a stimulus.
What is a reflex?
400
Bony fish are part of this class.
What is class Osteichthyes?
400
A transparent membrane that binds an organ to the dorsal body wall.
What is the mesentery?
500
These are toxins that affect parts of the nervous system and often cause paralysis.
What are neurotoxins?
500
This describes an animal that brings forth its young already hatched without the use of a placenta.
What is ovoviviparous?
500
A dog growling at you when you approach her new puppies is an example of this type of inborn behavior.
What is instinct?
500
A form of camouflage in which the upper half of an aquatic animal is darker than its lower half.
What is countershading?
500
The digestive, reproductive, and excretory systems of the frog open into this common chamber.
What is the cloaca?