Taxonomy
What is Caudata?
In fish and amphibians, it filters liquid waste as urine
What is the kidney?
A drastic change in body form
What is metamorphosis?
Mating position of frogs
What is amplexus?
The voluntary long sleep of winter where the animal doesn't wake to eat
What is hibernation?
Order of caecilians
What is Apoda?
The sack that holds air in a fish and helps maintain buoyancy
What is the swim bladder?
The cells that give amphibians bright colors
What are chromatophores?
What is a spermatophore?
When an animal lives in the middle of the ocean
What is pelagic?
The order for frogs and toads
What is Anura?
The third eyelid in amphibians that covers the eye underwater
What is a nictitating membrane?
The Class of bony fishes
What is Osteichthyes
The baby is live born from the mother after being nourished by a placenta
What is viviparous?
Name for an organism that makes their own body heat
What is an endotherm?
The subclass of lobe-finned fishes
What is Sarcopterygii?
The membrane used for sensing vibrations/hearing
What is a tympanic membrane?
The long sleep of summer
What is estivation?
The singular opening in amphibians used for both waste and reproductive cells
What is the cloaca?
The involuntary state of sleep that lasts for long periods of time
What is torpor?
The subclass of all living amphibians
What is Lissamphibia?
A stiff rod that runs down the dorsal side of Chordates
What is a notochord?
Amphibians breathe through their skin using this
What is cutaneous respiration?
The egg is retained inside the mother during development, and then the baby hatches inside before leaving the mother's body
What is ovoviviparous
fossils that show the evolution of life from water to land
What are transitional fossils?