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100
The function of a swim bladder is _________
What is to control buoyancy
100
Fish breathe using...
What are gills?
100
What does a fusiform body look like?
What is torpedo shaped
100
What are 2 functions of a fish school?
What is safety in numbers, swimming efficiency, ease in feeding or finding a mate
100
How can the age of a fish be determined?
What is by counting the annual rings on its scales.
200
What is the function of a fish's lateral line?
What is to sense changes in pressure and water movement.
200
The structure that protects the gills.
What is the operculum?
200
What type of coloration is often displayed by open water (pelagic) fish?
What is countershading
200
A mass movement from one area to another is called ___
What is migration
200
A ganoid fish scale shape.
What is diamond shaped?
300
What is a barbel and what is its function?
What is a whisker-like sensory structure hanging from a fish's lower jaw which allows it to taste and feel along the substrate
300
What happens to a fish's respiration rate as the temperature increases and why?
What is respiration increases because its metabolism also increases while the amount of oxygen in the water decreases
300
What is the function of an iridophore (iridocyte)?
What is reflects light and makes the fish shiny
300
Fish must maintain concentrations of salt and water that differ from their surroundings. This internal harmony is referred to as...
What is homeostasis?
300
Name a lobe-finned fish.
What is lungfish or coelacanth
400
Name a paired fin
What is pectoral or pelvic
400
Paired fins allow the fish to steer and go up and down.
What are pectoral fins?
400
The evolutionary innovation in class Osteichthyes.
What is a true backbone?
400
They type of fish scale seen here.
What is cycloid?
400
Define spawning
What is female lays many small eggs which are fertilized externally by the male
500
Which fin(s) provides the main thrust for swimming for the majority of bony fish?
What is caudal fin.
500
Fish can pump water over the gills through the opening and closing of the operculum. This helps a fish...
What is conserve energy?
500
Osteichthyes spines connect the skull at the front of the fish to the tail at the rear and is made of many vertebrae. The spines purpose is...
What is to protect the spinal cord?
500
Fish gills are fanned out because...
What is it increases the surface area of the gills to exchange gases (O2 and CO2).
500
Name a ray-finned fish.
goldfish, clownfish, lionfish, scorpion fish