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Tetrapods
Fish
Miscellaneous
100

If an animal does this as it grows, then it is definitely an arthropod

What is molting?

100

An example of artificial selection

What is selectively breeding animals or plants?

100
Name two marine reptiles

What are marine iguanas/sea turtles/sea snakes/saltwater crocodiles?

100

Two reasons why sharks are vulnerable to overfishing

What are slow gestation/late maturity/small broods/internal fertilization/long migrations?

100

If a grouping on a phylogenetic tree does not include all of the descendants of a single common ancestor, then it is a ___________ group.

What is a paraphyletic group?

200

Cnidarians have this type of symmetry

What is radial symmetry?

200

The case of the peppered moths in England was an example of this phenomenon

What is natural selection/industrial melanism?

200
Name a pinniped, sirenian, and member of the suborder Mysteceti

What is a seal/sea lion/walrus; dugong/manatee; and baleen whale?

200

An example of a fish from each fish class:

Agnatha, Osteichthyes, and Chondrichthyes 

What are hagfish/lamprey; any bony fish; shark/skate/ray?

200

Urchins use their ______ to eat _____

What is their Aristostle's lantern to eat algae?

300

While squids have an internal shell, these cephalopods have no shell

What are octopuses?

300

Non-functional traits left over from evolution are called these

What are vestigial traits?

Bonus: Name a vestigial trait in humans

300

PCB's and mercury are particularly concentrated in the fatty tissues of marine mammals because of this process

What is bioaccumulation/biomagnification

Bonus: Define the difference between the two terms

300

A leafy seadragon blending in with the sargassum seaweed around it is an example of this type of camouflage

What is cryptic coloration?

300

This refers to the twisting of gastropods' bodies

What is torsion?

400

Bivalves have a siphon, but they do not have one of these

What is a radula?

400

Evolution can be defined as the change in this type of traits over time

What are heritable traits?

400

When killer whales eat the sea otters in an area, this happens to the amount of kelp

What is the amount of kelp decreases?

400

These are two adaptations of open-water fish that help them survive in their environment

What are silver colour/countershading/streamlined body shape/retractable fins/warm-blooded/no swim bladder?

400

These are 3 characteristics of animals

What are multicellular, heterotrophic, eukaryotic, capable of movement at some point in their lives?

500

Three classes from the phylum Mollusca

What are Bivalvia, Polyplacophora, Gastropoda, and Cephalopoda?

500

Shared derived traits, or these, are used to deduce phylogeny

What are synapomorphies?

500
Name three challenges faced by seabirds

What are finding food in a “patchy” environment; dealing with salty diet; keeping feathers clean and dry; avoiding predators, etc.?

500

Mesopelagic migrating fish are likely to have this trait

What is a swim bladder/strong muscles?

500

Name the hierarchy of Linnean classification, from kingdom to species

What is kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species?