Fishy Stuff
Types of Fish
External Fish
Internal Fish
Starts with P
100
Animals with a backbone
What is vertebrates
100
The three main groups of fish
What are jawless, bony, and cartilaginous
100
Fin on the back of a fish
What is a dorsal fin
100
Structures that allow fish to take oxygen from the water
What are gills
100
An animal that lives on or in the body of a host
What is a parasite
200
Animals that have a notochord
What is chordates
200
Name of the group of fish that sharks, rays and skates belong to.
What is cartilaginous
200
A series of pits in a fish's side that are used to sense movement
What is a lateral line
200
Structure that allows fish to control their depth in the water.
What is the swim bladder
200
Animals that eat other animals
What is a predator
300
Cold blooded
What is ectothermic
300
First group of bony fish - evolutionarily
What are the lobe-finned fishes
300
Openings on the top of a fishes head that allow air to enter.
What are nostrils
300
Small pieces of bone that form the backbone
What are vertebrae
300
Animal that is eaten by predators
What is prey
400
Paired openings on the top of the head of rays and skates.
What are spiracles
400
Three groups of bony fish.
What are lobe-finned, lungfish, and ray-finned
400
Gill cover
What is an operculum
400
Where the female produces eggs
What is the ovaries
400
Fins on the side of the fish
What are pectoral fins
500
Milky fluid containing sperm
What is milt
500
Ancestrial group of cartilaginous fishes and bony fishes.
What are the placoderms
500
Tail fin
What is the caudal fin
500
Type of heart found in fish
What is three chambered
500
Fins on the trunk of the fish
What are pelvic fins