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Amphibians
Vocab
100
These are characteristics that chordates share.
What is a nerve cord and slits in their throat area?
100
This animal moves by contracting muscles.
What is a snake?
100
A fish uses these to breathe.
What are gills?
100
This is the larva of a frog.
What is tadpole?
100
This is an animal that regulates its own body temperature by controlling the internal body heat it produces.
What is an endotherm?
200
This is a characteristic that makes it a vertebrate.
It is a backbone?
200
This animal's body is covered by a protective shell.
What is a turtle.
200
This type of fish has no jaw and no scales.
What is a jawless fish?
200
Frogs use these to climb trees.
What are sticky toes?
200
This is a vertebrate that lives in water and uses fins to move.
What is a fish?
300
The backbone that is formed by many similar bones.
What is a vertebrae?
300
These animals have skin covered with overlapping scales.
What are snakes and lizards?
300
Some fish has this tissue instead of bones.
What is cartilage?
300
This is what fully grown frogs and toads use to breathe?
What are lungs?
300
The blood of an amphibian moves to this lower chamber of the heart.
What is a ventricle?
400
These are the slits in the throat area.
What is the pharyngeal.
400
This characteristic helps a lizard to catch insects.
What is a tongue?
400
This organ helps to keep the fish stabilized at different depths of water.
What is a swim bladder?
400
This helps frogs and toads hide.
What is camouflage?
400
This is an animal's specific environment in which it lives.
What is a habitat?
500
These are types of vertebrates that have different ways they control their body temperature.
What is an ectotherm (does not produce internal heat) and endotherm (produces internal heat)?
500
This type of snake lifts loops of its body off the ground as it moves.
What is a sidewinder snake?
500
A fish has a loop and a two chambered heart.
What is a closed circulatory system?
500
These are the two upper chambers of an amphibians heart.
What are atria?
500
This is an organ in a reptile that keeps water inside its body.
What is a kidney?