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Module 11 Invertebrates
Module 12 Arthropods
Intro to Vertebrates
Module 13
Vertebrate Classes
Amphibians
Biology Flashback
100

Earthworms crawl to the surface after a heavy rainfall due to this problem.

What is suffocation due to water taking the place of oxygen in the soil?

100

Arthropods have exoskeletons made up of this substance.

What is Chitin?

100

These are the two common characteristics of all vertebrates.

What are they all have a backbone and a dorsal nerve cord?

100

This feature of both a shark and a fish detects vibrations in the water to help predators hunt their prey or to alert prey of possible approaching predators.

What are Lateral Lines?

100

People mistake me for a reptile, and I spend most of my time on land, however, I return to the water to reproduce.

What is a toad?

100

These are the 3 particles in an atom's nucleus and their type of electrical charge.

What are Protons (positive), Electrons (negative), and Neutrons (neutral)?

200

An organism that has both male and female sexual organs is 

What is Hermaphroditic?

200

An arthropod has either 2 or 3 body segmentations. Name the segments of an arthropod with a 2- segmented body.

What are the cephalothorax and the abdomen?

200

This substance is present in bone but not in cartilage and causes it to harden

What is Calcium Phosphate?

200

The endoskeletons of sharks, rays, and skates are made up of this flexible substance.

What is cartilage?

200

As it gets cold, so do my organs, which slows all the chemical reactions in my body.  I'm fine....I'll get back to moving and eating as the weather warms up.  For now, I am 

What is Hibernating?

200

The basic building blocks of a protein are called

What are amino acids?

300

The body feature of creatures in Phylum Cnidaria that either paralyzes or causes an irritating sting.

What are Nematocysts?

300

Spiders breath with this organ that has several thin layers which absorb oxygen and release carbon dioxide called

What are Book Lungs?

300

These thin-walled blood vessels allow gasses and nutrients to be exchanged with the tissues and attaches the veins to the arteries in a closed circulatory system.

What are capillaries?

300

This body feature helps a fish stay afloat in the water.

What is an air bladder?

300

A frog can not regulate its own body heat.  Therefore, this cold-blooded creature is also called 

What is Ectothermic?

300

The tendency of a solvent to travel across a semipermeable membrane into areas of higher solute concentration.

What is Osmosis?

400

Sponges in Phylum Porifera have no organs but these specialized cells that aid in digestion.

What are amoebacytes?

400

What is A , D, and E?

What is A brain ganglia, D nerve cord, E heart

F pericardial sinus, G sternal sinus

H green gland

400

These bone cells break down bone tisse

What are Osteoclasts?

400

I am a salmon:  born in fresh water, move to salt water for my adult life, and then go back to reproduce in fresh water, so I am called

What is Anadromous?

400

A female frog lays eggs in the water, a male fertilizes those eggs outside her body (external fertilization). The eggs develop in the water and tadpoles hatch from the eggs, which makes the development 

What is Oviparous?

400

This stage of Cellular Respiration produces the Most energy of all 4 stages (about 32 ATP).

What is the Electron Transport System?

500

There are 3 beneficial results of earthworms tunneling in the soil. Name 2 of the 3.

What are: 1. loosening the soil and creating tunnels to help oxygenate the soil. 2. Fertilization of the soil - mixing the mineral-rich deeper soil w/ the topsoil. 3. Earthworm gets the food it needs to survive?

500

Name 3 of the 5 common characteristics of invertebrates in Phylum Arthropoda.

What are Exoskeletons, Body Segmentation, Jointed Appendages, Ventral Nervous System, & Open Circulatory System?

500

These are 3 of the 4 common characteristics of "True Vertebrates." 

What are endoskeletons, closed circulatory systems, complex nervous systems, and internal or external fertilization? 

500

Humans have a 4 chambered heart. These are the numbers of chambers in the heart of a fish and in the heart of an amphibian.

What are 2 (fish) and 3 (amphibian)?

500

Amphibians apparently don't want to be caught without the ability to breathe. These are the 4 ways an amphibian can breathe throughout its life cycle.

What are gills, lungs, skin, and lining of the mouth?

500

If B= brown eyes and b = blue eyes, what percentage of offspring will have brown eyes if both parents are heterozygous?  

BbxBb

What is 75%