VERTEBRATES: FISH AND AMPHIBIANS

VERTEBRATES CHARACTERISTICS

100

Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals are:

a. Vertebrates

b. Invertebrates

a. Vertebrates

200

Vertebrate animals have:

a. Radial symmetry

b. Bilateral symmetry

c. They are asymmetric

b. Bilateral symmetry

300

Their temperature varies with the temperature of the environment: 

a. Endothermic animals

b. Ectomorphic animals

c. Ectothermic animals

d. Endomorphic animals

c. Ectohtermic animals

400

Intrauterine cannibalism is a behaviour in some carnivorous species during the embryonic development. Which group of vertebrates exhibit this behaviour?

a. Fish

b. Amphibians

c. Reptiles

d. Birds

e. Mammals

a. Fish 

500

In vertebrate animals fertilization can be internal or external. Which of these animals have external fertilization?

a. Sharks

b. Frogs

c. Turtles

d. Eagles

e. Cats

b. Frogs

FISH CHARACTERISTICS

100

They are adapted to swim, they are:

a. Hydrodynamic

b Aerodynamic 

a. Hydrodynamic

200

Fish are:

a. Endotherms

b. Ectotherms

c. Isotherms

b. Ectotherms

300

Fish reproduce sexually, most of them have external fertilization and most of them are:

a. Oviparous

b. Viviparous

c. Ovoviviparous

a. Oviparous

400

The sense organ that allows vibrations and water currents to be detected: 

a. Swim bladder

b. Operculum 

c. Lateral line

c. Lateral line

500

Fish are:

a. Carnivores, herbivores or omnivores

b. Only carnivores

c. Only herbivores

d. Carnivores or herbivores

a. Carnivores, herbivores or omnivores

FISH CLASSIFICATION

100

Fishes with a round mouth full of teeth are called:

a. Jawless fish

b. Bony fish

a. Jawless fish

200

Most highly evolved fish with the gills covered by an operculum are: 

a. Jawless fish

b. Bony fish

c. Cartilaginous fish

b. Bony fish

300

Gill slits and denticles are characteristics of:

a. Jawless fish

b. Bony fish

c. Cartilaginous fish

c. Cartilaginous fish

400

Seahorses are: 

a. Jawless fish

b. Bony fish

c. Cartilaginous fish

d. They are not a fish

b. Bony fish

500

The heterocercal tail of a shark is:

a. A caudal fin with asymmetrical lobes

b. A dorsal fin with asymmetrical lobes

c. A pelvic fin with asymmetrical lobes

d. A caudal fin with symmetrical lobes

a. A caudal fin with asymmetrical lobes

AMPHIBIAN CHARACTERISTICS

100

Amphibians are: 

a. Ectotherms

b. Endotherms

a. Ectotherms

200

Amphibians reproduce sexually. They lay their eggs in water since the eggs: 

a. Don't have an impermeable shell

b. Have an impermeable shell

a. Don't have an impermeable shell

300

Amphibians inhabit terrestrial environment but they are always in contact with water. They need water for:

a. Respiration

b. Reproduction

c. Both are correct

c. Both are correct

400

Adult amphibians respiration is: 

a. Cutaneous and with gills

b. Pulmonary

c. With gills

d. Pulmonary and cutaneous

d. Pulmonary and cutaneous

500

Mst amphibians go through the following stages in the metamorphosis process. Choose the correct order:

a. Adult frog, froglet, egg, tadpole, tadpole with legs

b. Egg, tadpole, tadpole with legs, froglet, adult frog

c. Tadpole, tadpole with legs, eggs, froglet, adult frog

b. Egg, tadpole, tadpole with legs, froglet, adult frog

AMPHIBIAN CLASSIFICATION

100

Frogs and toads are:

a. Anurans

b. Urodeles

a. Anurans

200

Newts are:

a. Anurans

b. Urodeles

c. Caecilians

b. Urodeles

300

Urodeles have: 

a. Short body and tail

b. Long body and tail

c. Long body and no tail

b. Long body and tail

400

Group of limbless (no extremities), vermiform or serpentine amphibians. The body is cylindrical dark brown or bluish black in colour. 

a. Toads

b. Newts

c. Caecilians

c. Caecilians

500

The axolotl is an amphibian that keeps the juvenile traits when adults. To which group of the following is the axolotl more related to:

a. Frogs

b. Newts

c. Toads

d. Salamanders

e. Caecilians 

d. Salamanders