Fish Characteristics
Jawless Fish
Cartilage Fish
Bony Fish
Fish Adaptations
(Hey, no misc !)
100
A fish heart has ____ chamber(s),which gives the blood ____ loop(s) of circulation
What is 2 and 1 ?
100
The formal name for the class of Jawless Fish is _________
What is Agnatha ?
100
This is the formal name for the class of Cartilage Fish
What is Chondrichthyes ?
100
This is the formal name for the class of bony fish
What is Osteichthyes ?
100
A __________ fish would have a long, coiled intestine, while a __________fish would have a short, straight intestine
What are herbivorous and carnivorous ?
200
The _______ fins are the fish's "arms" and the _______ fins are the fish's "legs"
What is pectoral and pelvic ?
200
Jawless fish do not have what 3 things that most all other fish have ?
What are fins, scales, and a lower jaw
200
These cartilage fish have huge pectoral fins, a long tail, and are rather flat
What are rays (or skates) ?
200
This plate helps move water over the gills if the fish is not swimming
What is the operculum ?
200
When the water and the blood in gill filaments flow toward each other in opposite directions, this is called ______________ flow
What is countercurrent ?
300
The formal name for tail fin is the _______ fin, which is not symmetrical in ________ fish.
What is caudal and cartilage ?
300
This jawless fish is a parasite on other fish
What is the lamprey ?
300
A shark has an infinite number of these during its lifetime
What are teeth ?
300
This helps the fish rise and sink without its having to swim up and down:
What is the swim bladder ?
300
In terms of migration, salmon are anadromous which means they do this; while eels are catadromous, which means they do this:
What is swim upstream and swim downstream ?
400
The scales of a fish are absent in _______ fish, on top of the skin in ______fish, and inside the skin in ______ fish.
What are jawless, bony and cartilage ?
400
This jawless fish is a scavenger on dead organisms
What is a hagfish ?
400
A shark has this special "6th sense" to find prey
What are electroreceptors (Ampullae of Lorenzini) or can detect electricity ?
400
This sensory system tells a fish about its surroundings (even in the dark or deep ocean).
What is the lateral line ?
400
Fish are ____ thermic, or ____ blooded, which means what ?
What is ecto, cold, and body temp= water temp
500
A freshwater fish will die in saltwater due to ___________; A saltwater fish will die in freshwater due to ____________>
What is dehydration (water leaving cells) and cells bursting (water entering cells) ?
500
This is a method used to control lamprey populations in the Great Lakes
What are lampricides (poisons) or sterilized males ?
500
This is how you can tell if a shark is male or female
What is males have claspers on their pelvic fins ?
500
2 fish that have soft fins are this "living fossil" and this possible ancestor of amphibians
What are the coelacanth and the lungfish ?
500

Fish eggs are called _______ and newborn fish are called ________

What is caviar (or roe), and fry (or larvae) ?