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Fish and Amphibians
Question | Answer |
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The phylum whose member have a notochord, a nerve cord, and slits in their throat area at some point in their lives. | Chordate |
A flexible rod that supports a chordate's back. | Notochord |
The small bones that make up the backbone. | Vertebrae |
An animal whose body controls and regulates its temperature by controlling the internal heat it produces. | Endotherm |
An ectothermic vertebrate that lives in the water and has fins. | Fish |
A connective tissue that is more flexible than bone and that protects the ends of bones and keeps them from rubbing together. | Cartilage |
An internal, gas-filled organ that helps a bony fish stabilize its body at different water depths. | Swim Bladder |
The major groups of fishes. | Jawless, Cartilaginous, and Bony |
These fishes have no jaw and no scales. | Jawless Fishes |
These fishes have jaws, scales, a pocket on each side of the head that holds the gills, and a skeleton made of hard bones. | Bony Fishes |
These fishes have jaws and scales, and skeletons made of cartilage. | Carilaginous Fishes |
An ectothermic vertebrate that spends its early life in water and its adult life on land. | Amphibian |
The larval form of a frog or a toad. | Tadpole |
An organ found in air-breathing vertebrates that exchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide withthe blood. | Lung |
Each of the two upper chambers of the heart that receives blood that comes into the heart. | Atrium |
A lower chamber of the heart that pumps blood out to the lungs and body. | Ventricle |
The specific environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce. | Habitat |