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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Vertebra | The bone that make up the backbone of an animal. |
| Cartilage | A flexible, strong tissue that is softer than bone. |
| Endotherm | An animal whose body controls and regulates its temperature by controlling the internal heat it produces. |
| Chordate | The phylum whose members have a Notochord, a nerve chord, and slits in their throat area at some point of there lives. |
| Ectotherm | An animal whose body does not produce much internal heat. |
| NotoChord | A flexible rod that supports a chordates back. |
| Buoyant force | The force that water exerts upward on any under water object. |
| swim bladder | An internal gas-filled organ that helps a bony fish stabilize its body at different water depths. |
| Fish | An Ectotherm vertebrate that lives in the water and has fins. |
| Habitat | The specific environment in which an animal lives. |
| Ventricle | The lower chamber of the heart which pumps blood out to the lungs and body. |
| Atrium | An upper chamber of the heart. |
| Amphibian | An Ectothermic vertebrate that spend its early life in water and its adult hood on lad, returning to water to reproduce. |
| Reptile | An Exothermic vertebrate that has lungs and scaly skin. |
| Urine | The watery fluid i n which the waste produced by an animal's cells are excreted. |
| Fossil | The hardened remains or other evidence of a living thing that existed a long time in the past. |
| Sedimentary Rock | Rock formed from hardened layers of sediments-particles of clay, and, mud, or slit. |
| Paleontologist | A scientist who studies extinct organisms, examines fossil structure, and makes comparisons to presnt-day organisms. |