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Test 12-22

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Vertebrate   An Animal with a backbone made of vertebrae, or sometimes, cartilage  
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Chordate   Animals which AT SOME POINT in their lives had a notochord, a nerve cord, and pharyngeal slits  
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Cartilage   Flexible, strong, connective tissue (A few vertebrates have this as a backbones rather than bone)  
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Endoskeleton   Internal skeleton that supports and protects the body, gives it shape, and provides a place for muscles to attach  
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Ectotherm   An animal whose body temperature does not maintain a steady temperature on its own. These animals temperatures' go up and down depending upon the temperature of their environment. Ex: lizard, frog, fish  
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Endotherm   An animal whose body controls and regulates its body temperature from within, by controlling the heat it produces/releases Ex: humans, rabbits, birds  
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Fish   An ectothermic vertebrate that lives in water, has fins and scales, ans breathes with gills  
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Cartilaginous   Made of cartilage  
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Swim Bladder   An internal gas-filled sac that helps stabilize a fish at various depths  
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Buoyant force   the upward force exerted by water on an object or organism in or on it  
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Amphibian   an ectothermic vertebrate that spends its early life in water and its adult life on land. Means "Double life"  
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Atria   the upper chambers of the heart  
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Ventricle   The lower chamber of the heart  
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Habitat   the specific environment in which an organism lives  
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Reptile   an egg laying, ectothermic vertebrate that has lungs and scaly skin  
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Kidney   organs that filter waste from the blood  
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urine   watery fluid containing waste filtered from the blood that is excreted from the body of an animal  
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Dewlap   flap of loose skin under the head of a male reptile (Can be expanded when courting or defending territory)  
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Kilogram   metric unit used for mass or weight  
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incubation   period during which an organism develops inside an egg  
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Fossil   the hardened remains or other evidence ofa living thing that existed a long time in the past  
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sedimentary rock   rock made of hardened layers of sediment  
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paleontologist   scientists who study extinct organisms by studying their fossil remains and comparing them to present-day organisms  
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Amber   a hard yellowish to brownish fossil resin formed by tree sap  
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Three fish types   Bony fish, Cartilaginous fish, Jawless fish  
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Example of Bony fish   Trout, Flounder, Rainbow  
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Example of Cartilaginous fish   Shark  
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Example of Jawless fish   Lamprey  
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Characteristics of fish   Scales, Gills, Ectotherm, Fins  
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Characteristics of Amphibians   Atria, ventricles, ectotherm, vertebrate, lungs as adults, gills as larvae  
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Characteristics of Reptiles   One lung, eyelids (lizards), eggs with leathery shells, external ears (lizards), lays eggs on land, scaly skin  
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