Intro
Creatures that have a backbone.
What are vertebrates?
The type of skeleton found Inside vertebrates.
What is an Endoskeleton?
Bony Fish have this number of chambers in their heart.
What is TWO?
Helps the bony fish to stay afloat in the water by increasing or decreasing the amount of gases inside of it.
What is an air bladder?
Sharks have endoskeletons made of this material.
What is cartilage?
All vertebrates are part of this phylum.
What is Phylum Chordata?
Skeletal division that supports the head, neck, & trunk.
For Daily Double:
Name 3 of these bones.
What is Axial Skeleton?
skull, spine, ribs
The heart chamber that receives blood.
What is the atria (or atrium)?
This organ secrets bile into the intestine, stores excess glucose as glycogen, and cleans toxins from the blood.
What is the Liver?
This vertebrate lives a "Dual Life"- born in the water but later developing air-breathing respiration systems that allows it to live in water and on land.
What are amphibians?
Segments of bone or some other hard substance arranged into a backbone.
What is Vertebrae?
Skeletal division that has limbs attached to it?
What is the Appendicular Skeleton?
The heart chamber from which blood is pumped out.
What is the ventricle?
What is the Gallbladder?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
Vertebrates have complex nervous systems with these five sets of lobes in their brains.
What are olfactory, cerebrum, optic, cerebellum, & medulla oblongata lobes?
A type of backbone that's a rod of tough, flexible material that runs the length of the body and provides support.
What is a Notochord?
The place where blood cells are produced in the body.
What is bone marrow?
What are kidneys?
This covers the gills of a bony fish; the fish intakes water into its mouth, and the water runs out of the fish through this.
What is Operculum?
Sharks hunt by detecting vibrations with this feature. The bony fish has the same feature to warn it of predators nearby.
What is a lateral line?
Protected by the backbone, all vertebrates in Phylum Chordata have one of these that run along their backs.
What is a Dorsal Nerve Cord?
Blood is red in color because the cells that carry oxygen in the blood are full of this kind of protein.
What is hemoglobin?
A term for a "cold-blooded" animal that can't regulate its own body heat.
What is Ectothermic?
This body structure in the bony fish secretes digestive enzymes into the intestine and chemicals into the stomach to breakdown food.
What is the pyloric ceca?
Sharks have this type of sensor that detects minute amounts of electricity, aiding in its hunting.
What is an electrical field sensor?