Science Chapter 8 test

Question 1

Affects the circulatory system by causing red blood cells to burst

Answer 1

Hemotoxic venom

Question 2

Medicine designed to counter act snake venom

Answer 2

Anti venom

Question 3

Cavity in the roof of a snakes mouth that detects scents molecules on the tongue

Answer 3

Jacobson’s organ

Question 4

Color-changing cells that give most lizards the ability to change colors

Answer 4

Chromatophores

Question 5

The snake looks like an accordion when it moves

Answer 5

Concertina movement

Question 6

Have adhesive toe pads that allows them to cling to various surfaces

Answer 6

Geckos

Question 7

The most numerous reptiles

Answer 7

Lizards

Question 8

Largest of all lizards

Answer 8

Komodo dragon

Question 9

Slow-moving snakes that ciol around their prey and squeez it until it dies

Answer 9

Constrictors

Question 10

Best know elapids

Answer 10

Cobras

Question 11

The smallest snake in the world

Answer 11

Blind snake

Question 12

Largest group of snakes

Answer 12

Colubrids

Question 13

Brightly colored in red and yellow and black lives in north and south America

Answer 13

Coral snakes

Question 14

A poisonous liquid produced by animals and contains enzymes and chemicals that destroy portions of the body

Answer 14

Venom

Question 15

Snakes produce in litters called

Answer 15

Clutches

Question 16

Throat fans on lizards

Answer 16

Dewlaps

Question 17

A survival method mother caecilians use to grow a fatty layer of skin for there young to eat

Answer 17

Dermatophagy

Question 18

Amphibians that are long body and limdless

Answer 18

Caecilians

Question 19

Have slime gland that release proteins that when mixed w/ sea water creates a slimy coating for a voiding predator animals

Answer 19

Hagfish

Question 20

Nocturnal lizard like reptiles that are classified by them selves have a 3rd eye on their back called a parietal eye

Answer 20

Tuatara

Question 21

Dinosaur that looked like a dolphin

Answer 21

Ichthyosaurus

Question 22

The “squares”of the turtles shell

Answer 22

Scutes

Question 23

A hard movable plate that protects the gills

Answer 23

Operculum

Question 24

Animals that regulate their temp by external means

Answer 24

Cold-blooded

Question 25

Aquatic vertebrates that have gills, fins, and scales

Answer 25

Fish

Question 26

Have an internal skeleton made entirely or partially of bone

Answer 26

Bony fish

Question 27

What % of fish are bony

Answer 27

95%

Question 28

Have fin made of webs of skin supported by rays or spines

Answer 28

Ray-finned fish

Question 29

Have webbed rays attached to the body by lobes

Answer 29

Lobe-finned fish

Question 30

Overlapping bony plates that protrude from the fishes skin

Answer 30

Scales

Question 31

The W shaped bands along the fishes muscles

Answer 31

Myomers

Question 32

The fish have a ___chamber heart

Answer 32

2

Question 33

System of nerve endings that extend over the fishes head and sides

Answer 33

Lateral line

Question 34

fish eggs

Answer 34

Roe

Question 35

The fluid released by the males that contains sperm

Answer 35

Milt

Question 36

A large gas filled organ that helps the fish stay a float

Answer 36

Swim bladder

Question 37

Electric current-generating organs build up electricity that can be discharged all at once

Answer 37

Electocytes

Question 38

The fish best able to live on land

Answer 38

Mudskippers

Question 39

Fish that have cartilage for a skeleton instead of bone

Answer 39

Cartilaginous fish

Question 40

The 2 classes of cartilaginous fish

Answer 40

Chondrichthyes and Cyclostomata

Question 41

The largest fish

Answer 41

Whale shark

Question 42

Placiod scale that make up shark skin and feels like sandpaper

Answer 42

Denticales

Question 43

Nostrils behind the eyes of sharks for breathing

Answer 43

Spiricals

Question 44

The protective case the sharks lay their eggs in

Answer 44

Mermaids purse

Question 45

Largest carnivorous fish

Answer 45

Great white shark

Question 46

Has a unusual looking head (shark)

Answer 46

Hammerhead shark

Question 47

The only known shark to come to the surface and gulp air

Answer 47

Sand tiger shark

Question 48

Cartilaginous fish with flattened bodies

Answer 48

Rays

Question 49

Have broad bodies and long-whip like tails

Answer 49

True rays

Question 50

Responsible for injuring more people than any other fish

Answer 50

Sting ray

Question 51

Have 2 dorsal fins near the end of the tail

Answer 51

Skates

Question 52

Named for its unusual looking looking nose called a rostrum

Answer 52

Sawfish

Question 53

Have gills that are covered by an operculum and only have 1 gill opening

Answer 53

Chimaeras

Question 54

The 3 different chimaeras

Answer 54

Long-nose ,short-nose ,plow-nose

Question 55

Cold-blooded vertebrates that have scales and breath with lungs

Answer 55

Reptiles

Question 56

Largest gecko

Answer 56

Tokay gecko

Question 57

A moveable transparent eye covering

Answer 57

Spectacles

Question 58

Snake that follows an S shaped pattern

Answer 58

Lateral undation

Question 59

Snake that shortens and stretches it body segments to move

Answer 59

Rectangular movement

Question 60

That snake supports it body with head, tail, and other points of contact;lifts rest of its body off the ground and moves it across the sand

Answer 60

Side winding movement

Question 61

That snake supports it body with head, tail, and other points of contact;lifts rest of its body off the ground andoves it across the sand

Answer 61

Side winding movement

Question 62

Snakes have this kind of jaws so they can eat a massive prey

Answer 62

Double hinged jaw

Question 63

Have immovable fangs at the front of their jaws

Answer 63

Elapids

Question 64

Elapids from Asia;have huge venom gland that can be 1/3 the length of their body

Answer 64

Kraits

Question 65

Have fangs that fold back along the roof of their mouth

Answer 65

Vipers

Question 66

The membrane that can detect miniature temp changes that allow the pit viper to locate warm bodies

Answer 66

Pit organs

Question 67

Largest snake in the world

Answer 67

Anaconda

Question 68

Covers the abdomen of the turtles

Answer 68

Plastron

Question 69

Covers the back of turtles

Answer 69

Carapace

Question 70

Longest living land animals

Answer 70

Tortoise

Question 71

The difference between all 4 types of crocodilians

Answer 71

Crocs- narrow snout and their 4th lower too this visible when the jaw is shut Alligators- have a broad snout and all teeth are hidden Caimans- have bony protective plates on their abdomen and back Gharials- have a distinctive about that is very narrow and long

Question 72

Carnivorous dinosaurs that walk on 2 legs

Answer 72

Theropods

Question 73

Large herbivorous animals like apatosaorus

Answer 73

Sauropods

Question 74

Plated dinosaur with rows of trianagular shaped plates on their back

Answer 74

Stegosaurus

Question 75

Looked like giant horned lizards with bony plates in their eyelids and a bony club shaped head

Answer 75

Anklyosaurus

Question 76

Had a bony some shaped head

Answer 76

Pachycephalosaurus

Question 77

Had a body similar to bats (dino)

Answer 77

Pterosaurs

Question 78

Giant dinos of the sea with paddle shaped feet long neck and legs

Answer 78

Plesiosaurs

Question 79

Cold-blooded 4 legged vertebrates that live on both land near water their skin is moist and contains many glands

Answer 79

Amphibians

Question 80

The changing of a immature hatchling into a adult

Answer 80

Metamorphosis

Question 81

Found world wide in moisture rich temperature and tropical regions;and means "fire lizards"

Answer 81

Salamander

Question 82

A type of dormancy where the mucus coating surrounding a salamanders bony protects it by preventing it from drying out

Answer 82

Estivation

Question 83

Frogs and toads are called this

Answer 83

Anurans

Question 84

Their skin produces toxic secretions

Answer 84

Anurans

Question 85

The larvae of frogs and toads

Answer 85

Tadpoles