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Vertebrate info
Fish & Amphibians
Reptiles & Birds
Mammals
Off the Outline
100
All vertebrates have one of these that is part of an internal skeleton.
What is a backbone?
100
Fish use these organs to take in oxygen.
What are gills?
100
All snakes are this kind of eater.
What is a carnivore?
100
Most mammals are born alive, and every young mammal is fed milk produced by these glands.
What mammary glands?
100
Reptiles have dry, tough skin covered with these.
What are scales?
200
An internal skeleton is called this.
What is an endoskeleton?
200
The three fish groups include jawless, bony and this type.
What is cartilaginous?
200
Lizards have these and snakes don't.
What are legs?
200
Mammals are these, which can produce there own body heat.
What are endotherms?
200
The mammal's _________ period is the length of time between fertilization and birth.
What is gestation?
300
At some point in their lives, all chordates have slits in this area of their body.
What is throat?
300
Most fishes are this, which describes it's skeletal system.
What is bony?
300
Evidence indicates that birds decescended from this type of animal.
What are reptiles?
300
This is where a placental mammal develops before its body systems can function independently?
What is "inside its mother's body"?
300
It is rare, but some birds cannot do this.
What is fly?
400
Animals, (most fishes, amphibians, and reptiles), whose body temperature is close to the temperature of their environment are called this.
What is an ectotherm?
400
If a fish's swim bladder was destroyed, fish would be unable to do this at different depths.
What is stabilize its body?
400
All birds have hearts with this many chambers.
What is four?
400
This large MUSCLE allows mammals to breath in and out.
What is the diaphram?
400
This mammal carries its baby in a pouch.
What is a marsupial?
500
The phylum name Chordata comes from this word, meaning a flexible rod that supports a chordate's back.
What is notochord?
500
Most adult amphibians can obtain oxygen through these two organs.
What lungs and thin, moist skin?
500
An adult reptile can survive on dry land because its kidneys produce this.
What is concentrated urine?
500
This characteristic is used to classify a mammal as a monotreme, marsupial, or placental mammal.
What is "how the young" develop?
500
These are mammals with webbed feet and lay eggs.
What are monotremes?