Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles

Question 1

An animal that has a backbone

Answer 1

Vertebrate

Question 2

An animal that can use body heat from chemical reactions in the body’s cells to maintain a constant body temperature.

Answer 2

Endotherm

Question 3

An organism that needs sources of heat outside of itself.

Answer 3

Ectotherm

Question 4

A faint line visible on both sides of a fish’s body that runs the length of the body and marks the location of sense organs that detect vibrations in water.

Answer 4

Lateral Line

Question 5

A respiratory organ in which oxygen from the water is exchanged with carbon dioxide from the blood.

Answer 5

Gill

Question 6

Eel-like fish that have no jaw. They have smooth slimy skin, and a round jawless mouth. Their skeleton is made of cartilage. No backbone, they have a notocord.

Hagfish and Lamprey

Answer 6

Jawless FISH

Question 7

Fish in which the skeleton never changes to bone and always stays cartilage. Good swimmers and hunters. Good senses they have a lateral line system.

Skates and Stingrays and Sharks

Answer 7

Cartilaginous Fishes

Question 8

Skeleton is made of bone they have bony scales covering them. They can rest in one place without swimming. They have a swim bladder.

Tuna, trout, and lungfishes.

Answer 8

Bony Fish

Question 9

A gas-filled sac that is used to control buoyancy; also known as a gas bladder.

Answer 9

Swim Bladder

Question 10

Animals that can live in water and has lungs and legs.

Answer 10

Amphibians

Question 11

A respiratory organ in which oxygen from the air is exchanged with carbon dioxide form the blood.

Answer 11

Lung

Question 12

The aquatic, fish-shaped larva of a frog or toad.

Answer 12

Tadpole

Question 13

A phase in the life cycle of many animals during which a rapid change from the immature form of an organism to the adult form takes place.

Answer 13

Metamorphosis

Question 14

An amphibian group that looks like an earthworm or snake. Moist skin like an amphibian. They do not have legs. They have bony scales on their skin.

Answer 14

Caecilians

Question 15

They do not develop as tadpoles. Most of them lose their gills and grow lungs. Live in damp places. Like an axolotl.

Answer 15

Salamanders

Question 16

They spend more time in water that toads, have smooth moist skin. Strong muscles. A long sticky tongue.

Answer 16

Frogs

Question 17

Drier and bumpier skin than a frog’s. Spend less time in water than frogs. Strong muscles in legs. Sticky tongue.

Answer 17

Toads

Question 18

All of them have lungs to breathe, they have thick skin. Use their surroundings to control their temperature. Special kind of egg that is laid on land.

Answer 18

Reptile

Question 19

A type of egg that is surrounded by a membrane, the amnion, and that in reptiles, birds, and egg-laying mammals contains a large amount of yolk and is surrounded by a shell.

Answer 19

Amniotic Egg

Question 20

Animals that usually spend most of their time in the water. They have protective shell. Inflexible animals.

Answer 20

Turtle

Question 21

Animals that usually live on land. Protective shell. Very slow animals. Inflexible animals.

Answer 21

Tortoise

Question 22

Spends most of their life in water. Narrow Head and pointed snout. Hide underwater to give them advantage over their prey. Predators

Answer 22

Crocodile.

Question 23

Spends most of life in water. Broad head and a rounded snout. Hide underwater. They are predators

Answer 23

Alligators.

Question 24

Carnivores, Special mouth organs help them smell. Suffocate or poison their prey. Mouths can stretch very big.

Answer 24

Snakes

Question 25

Usually eat insects and worms, some will eat bigger prey. Loosely connected jaw. Do not swallow large prey whole. Many have special adaptations.

Answer 25

Lizards

Question 26

Do not have ear holes. Are a lot like lizards. More active when the temperature is low. Rest during the day. Search for food at night.

Answer 26

Tuataras.