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Osteichthyes
Chondrichthyes
Misc.
100
The most inclusive taxon.
What is Kingdom?
100
Approximate number of known species of fish in the world.
What is 21000?
100
Typical fish shape with tapered head and tail ends.
What is fusiform?
100
Largest shark and what it eats.
What is the whale shark? What is plankton?
100
Chinese entree that is considered the biggest threat to shark populations.
What is shark fin soup?
200
Least inclusive taxon?
What is species?
200
Organisms that drift in the current.
What are plankton?
200
Color pattern common on most oceanic fish in which the dorsal surface is dark and the ventral surface is light.
What is countershading?
200
About half of shark species are less than this length.
What is 1 meter?
200
True or False: Shark teeth sit on a tooth bed that acts as a conveyor belt replacing lost teeth.
What is True?
300
The phylum in which all fish are found.
What is Chordata?
300
Animals or animal like organisms that drift in the current.
What are zooplankton?
300
Organ found in Osteichthyes but not Chondrichthyes that is used to help fish float.
What is an air or gas bladder?
300
Type of scales found on sharks.
What is placoid?
300
Why fish produce mucus.
What is protection from parasites and/or evasion from predators?
400
The class that includes sharks and rays.
What is Chondrichthyes?
400
Animals that do not have a skeleton but do have well-developed nervous and digestive systems. Examples include octopus, squid, sea stars, and lobster.
What are advanced invertebrates?
400
True or False: As fish grow older, their scales increase in number.
What is false?
400
Fins used for propulsion. Fins used for lift.
What are caudal and pectoral? (In that order).
400
Conservation status of whale sharks.
What is vulnerable?
500
Animals that have a spinal cord protected by vertebrae.
What are vertebrates?
500
Why we have an incomplete fossil record of sharks.
What is cartilage is generally too soft to fossilized leaving us with little more than fossilized teeth for examination?
500
Reasons for a change in coloration of fish. (Give two.)
What is stress, spawning, change in environment or age?
500
Three benefits of a cartilage skeleton.
What are flexible, sturdy, less dense than bone?
500
These two organs make up the electrosensory system of sharks.
What are Ampullae of Lorenzini and lateral line?