FISH
Take Flight
MAMMAL
MIX
MIX HON
100

Fish use this to adjust their depth in the sea:

swim bladder
100

Strong, light-weight feathers that give birds their sleek shape:

contour

100

These traits belong to:______________

Give birth to live young

Young crawl into the mother's pouches

Includes opossums and koalas

marsupials

100

This structure is sensitive to water currents in a fish:

lateral line
100

Trial-and-Error is a type of ___________.

Conditioning

200
What type of fish are these:  stingray, skate, and sharks?

cartilaginous or Chondrichthyes

200

The gizzard's purpose:

grind food
200

Mammals have a _______ chambered heart.

4

200

All vertebrates have a _____________

dorsal nerve cord

200

What type of behavior is done perfectly the first time with NO training?

innate

300

Describe the fish heart:

2 chambers

1 atrium and 1 ventrical

300

How does the gizzard work?

stones crush the food

300

HON:  What is a fixed-action pattern?

HON:series of actions that an organism performs in response to a specific, called a sign stimulus

300

Agnathans are _______ fish.

Jawless

300
Nursing or leaving a nest to head straight to the sea are examples of ____ behavior.

innate

400

This structure covers and protects the gills:

operculum

400

The YOLK provides____________ for the developing embryo.

nutrients

400

Connects the offspring to the placenta

umbilical cord

400

An example of a jawless fish would be:

sea lamprey

400

The ____________ is the shaft within the vane area of a feather.

rachis

EC:  find it first in the book or notes!

500

smallest vessels carrying oxygen and nutrients to the body's tissues:

capillaries

500

What is incubating?

keeping the eggs warm before they hatch.

500

What is unusual about monotremes?

They lay eggs.

500

A perch would be in this group of fish:

Bony fish