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Vertebrate Animals
Chapter 10 - Concepts and Challenges in Life Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How are birds classified into groups? | By their beaks and feet |
| What organs do female mammals have to create milk to nurse their young? | Mammary glands |
| Give an example of a cartilaginous fish | Shark, skate, ray |
| What kind of skeleton do all vertebrates have? | Endoskeleton (inside the body) |
| What kind of circulatory system do all vertebrates have? | Closed, blood travels through the body in blood vessels |
| What feature is common to all vertebrate animals? | A backbone (vertebrae) |
| What type of animals live part of their lives in water and part on land? | Amphibians |
| Which kinds of animals lay their eggs on land? | Reptiles, birds and some mammals |
| Which of the vertebrate animals are endothermic? | Birds and Mammals |
| Which of the vertebrate animals are ectothermic? | Fish, Amphibians and Reptiles |
| List an example of a marsupial (pouched mammal). | Koala, Kangaroo, Opossum |
| What is a trait of all mammals? | Body hair |
| What word do we use to describe a developing organism? | An embryo |
| What is metamorphosis? | The distinct changes during the stages of development of an animal |
| What are the organs that fish use to absorb oxygen from the water? | Gills |
| What do we call an animal whose body temperature changes with the temperature of its surroundings? | Ectothermic |
| Which group of the animals are considered the first true land animals? | Reptiles |
| What is an example of an amphibian with a tail? | Salamander or newt |
| What organ is found in some mammals that connects the mother with her developing offspring? | The placenta |
| List three features of chordate animals. | They have a notochord at some point during development, a hollow nerve cord, a head and tail, left and right side, closed circulatory system, highly developed nervous system |
| What do we call a frog during its larval stage of development? | A tadpole |
| When can a young frog leave water and live on land? | when it develops lungs |
| Where do most mammal babies develop? | inside the mother's body |
| What is the process called where tadpoles change into frogs? | Metamorphosis |
| What does the yolk of an egg hold for the developing embryo? | Food |
| What is the flexible structure that is found in all vertebrate embryos that is usually replaced by the backbone? | Notochord |
| What is the largest class of fish? | Bony fish |
| True or False: All mammals are vertebrates | True |
| True or False: Most vertebrates have an open circulatory system | False |
| True or False: Vertebrates have a well developed head with a skull. | True |
| True or False: The skeleton of all vertebrate embryos are made of cartilage. | True |
| What order of fish do the lampreys belong? | Jawless fish |
| What organs do fish use to breathe? | Gills |
| What does the word amphibian mean? | double life |
| True or False: Amphibians lay their eggs on dry land. | False |
| True or False: Amphibians have scales because they spend so much time in water. | False |
| True or False: Amphibians are endotherms. | False |
| True or False: Amphibians can obtain oxygen by breathing air into their lungs and absorbing it through their skin. | True |
| Which amphibians do not have legs and are shaped like worms or snakes? | Caecilians |
| What group of animals were the first to live their lives completely out of the water? | Reptiles |
| True or False: Reptiles use lungs to breathe. | True |
| True or False: Reptiles have thick skin that prevents water loss. | True |
| True or False: Reptiles are endotherms. | False |
| True or False: Reptiles live in mild climates. | True |
| What group of reptiles do chameleons, geckos, skinks and iguanas belong to? | Lizards |
| Why does a snake stick out its tongue? | To sample the air |
| What kind of animals have very large jaws that allow them to open their mouths very wide and swallow very large prey? | Snakes |
| What do birds need to have in order to fly? | A lot of energy and oxygen, a lightweight body, strong muscles |
| What feature do birds have that give them a streamlined body? | Feathers |
| What group do humans belong to ? | mammals |
| How are mammals divided into groups? | Based on how their young develop |
| What are the two examples of monotremes? | The echidna (spiny anteater) and Duckbill Platypus |
| Which group of mammals lay eggs? | Monotremes |
| What type of mammal is a koala? | Marsupial (pouched mammal) |
| What group of mammals are the largest? | Placental mammals |
| What type of chordate keeps its notochord for its entire life? | lancelet |
| How do placental mammals attach to their mother during development? | They have an umbilical cord that is attached to the placenta. |
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