Cold Blooded Flashcards

1
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An animal that has a backbone

A

Vertebrates

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2
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An animal that can use body heat from chemical reactions in the bodys cells to maintain a constant body temperature

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Endotherms

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3
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An organism that needs sources to heat outside of itself

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Ectotherms

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4
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A faint line visible on both sides of a fishes body that runs the length of the body

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Lateral Line

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5
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They help the fish breathe under water

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Gills

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6
Q

It is Hangfish and lampreys.

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Jawless Fishes

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7
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it is Sharks, Skates, and Rays

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Cartilaginous Fishes

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8
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It is Goldfish, Tuna, Trout, Catfish, and Cod.

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Bony Fishes

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9
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In bony fishes a gas filled Sac that is used to control buoyancy also known as a gas bladder

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Swim Bladder

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10
Q

Are like frogs and other animals

A

Amphibians

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11
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It helps so you can breathe

A

Lungs

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12
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Is a name for a baby frog

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Tadpole

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13
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Is an insect or an amphibian that can go from an immature to a adult

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Metamorphosis

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14
Q

completely lack limbs making the smaller species resemble worms while the larger species with lengths up to 1.5 m 4 ft 11 in resemble snakes

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Caecilians

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15
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characterized by a lizard like appearance with slender bodies, blunt snouts short limbs projecting at right angles to the body and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults

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Salamanders

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16
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are a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short bodied tailless amphibians composing the order Anura

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Frogs

17
Q

species of amphibians in the order Anura that are characterized by dry leathery skin short legs and parotoid glands

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Toads

18
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a group of tetra-pod animals comprising today’s turtles, crocodiles, snakes, amphibians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives.

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Reptiles

19
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a clade of tetrapod vertebrates comprising the reptiles, birds and mammals that lay their eggs on land or retain the fertilized egg within the mother.

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Amniotic Eggs

20
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Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines characterised by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield

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Turtles

21
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are a family, Testudinidae, of land-dwelling vertebrates in the order Testudines. Tortoises are shielded from predators by a shell.

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Tortoises

22
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are large aquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.

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Crocodiles

23
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weight and length is 360 kg 790 lb

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Alligators

24
Q

are elongated legless carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears.

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Snakes

25
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are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with approximately over 6,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.

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LIzards

26
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are reptiles endemic to New Zealand and which although resembling most lizards are part of a distinct lineage the order Rhynchocephalia their name derives from the Maori language and means peaks on the back

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Tuataras