Cold Blooded Flashcards
An animal that has a backbone
Vertebrates
An animal that can use body heat from chemical reactions in the bodys cells to maintain a constant body temperature
Endotherms
An organism that needs sources to heat outside of itself
Ectotherms
A faint line visible on both sides of a fishes body that runs the length of the body
Lateral Line
They help the fish breathe under water
Gills
It is Hangfish and lampreys.
Jawless Fishes
it is Sharks, Skates, and Rays
Cartilaginous Fishes
It is Goldfish, Tuna, Trout, Catfish, and Cod.
Bony Fishes
In bony fishes a gas filled Sac that is used to control buoyancy also known as a gas bladder
Swim Bladder
Are like frogs and other animals
Amphibians
It helps so you can breathe
Lungs
Is a name for a baby frog
Tadpole
Is an insect or an amphibian that can go from an immature to a adult
Metamorphosis
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
Caecilians
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
Salamanders
are a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short bodied tailless amphibians composing the order Anura
Frogs
species of amphibians in the order Anura that are characterized by dry leathery skin short legs and parotoid glands
Toads
a group of tetra-pod animals comprising today’s turtles, crocodiles, snakes, amphibians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives.
Reptiles
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.
Amniotic Eggs
Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines characterised by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield
Turtles
are a family, Testudinidae, of land-dwelling vertebrates in the order Testudines. Tortoises are shielded from predators by a shell.
Tortoises
are large aquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.
Crocodiles
weight and length is 360 kg 790 lb
Alligators
are elongated legless carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears.
Snakes
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.
LIzards
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
Tuataras
