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The process by which organisms maintain a relatively stable internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
100
If an animal moves into the sun because it needs to warm up its body, it is probably cold blooded. The proper term which describes this is...
What is an ectotherm?
100
The structure in birds where food is stored and moistened.
What is the crop?
100
Any signal that carries information and can be detected.
What is a stimulus?
100
In most fish these structures are the most important for obtaining oxygen from water.
What are gills?
200
A group of mammal that lays eggs.
What are monotremes?
200
A reptile living away from water will excrete its wastes in this form.
What is uric acid?
200
The membrane in a bird egg that stores wastes.
What is the allantois?
200
If behavior is inborn and performed nearly perfectly from the first time it is this type of behavior.
What is innate behavior?
200
The organ that adjusts the buoyancy of many bony fish is this.
What is the swim bladder (or air bladder)?
300
Term used to refer to a long tail that can grasp branches.
What is prehensile?
300
Adult reptiles use these organs to breathe.
What are lungs?
300
Feathers that provide the lifting force and balance for flight.
What are contour feathers?
300
A behavioral cycle that occurs in a daily pattern.
What is a circadian rhythm?
300
The adaptation of jaws for fish enabled them to protect themselves and also perform this function.
What is eat a wider variety of foods?
400
The organ in mammals through which nutrients, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and wastes are exchanged between an embryo and its mother.
What is the placenta?
400
This is different about a reptile egg compared to a fish.
What is a thick, leathery shell?
400
Birds need a lot of energy to maintain their body temperature. Being warm blooded is properly called this.
What is an endoderm?
400
A specific chemical messenger that affects the behavior or development of other individuals of the same species.
What is a pheromone?
400
The portion of the brain responsible for voluntary activities is this.
What is the cerebrum.
500
The circulatory system in mammals consists of this number of loops and a heart with how many chambers?
What is two loops and four chambers?
500
The skin of most reptiles is covered with these structures.
What are scales?
500
Birds develop in this type of egg.
What is an amniotic egg?
500
A form of behavior that involves applying something already learned to a new situation.
What is insight learning?
500
Fish such as guppies develop in eggs inside the mother and then are born alive. Name the term that describes this reproduction.
What is ovoviviparous?