cold blooded

Question 1

Vertebrates

Answer 1

an animal of a large group distinguished by the possession of a backbone or spinal column, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.

Question 2

Endotherms

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an animal that is dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat; a warm-blooded animal.

Question 3

Ectotherms

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Ectotherm, Any so-called cold-blooded animal; that is, any animal whose regulation of body temperature depends on external sources, such as sunlight or a heated rock surface.

Question 4

Lateral Line

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a visible line along the side of a fish consisting of a series of sense organs which detect pressure and vibration.

Question 5

Gills

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the paired respiratory organ of fishes and some amphibians, by which oxygen is extracted from water flowing over surfaces within or attached to the walls of the pharynx.

Question 6

jawless fish

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The jawless fish include the lampreys and the hagfish. Jaws, fins, and stomachs are absent in the jawless fish. Features of the jawless fish include a notochord, paired gill pouches, a pineal eye, and a two-chambered heart.

Question 7

cartilaginous fishes

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Chondrichthyes is a class that contains the cartilaginous fishes: they are jawed vertebrates with paired fins, paired nares, scales, a heart with its chambers in series, and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone. The class is divided into two subclasses: Elasmobranchii and Holocephali

Question 8

Bony Fishes

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fish with bones

Question 9

Swim Bladder

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a gas-filled sac present in the body of many bony fishes, used to maintain and control buoyancy.

Question 10

Amphibians

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Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia. Modern amphibians are all Lissamphibia. They inhabit a wide variety of habitats, with most species living within terrestrial, fossorial, arboreal or freshwater aquatic ecosystems

Question 11

Lungs

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used to breath air

Question 12

Tadpole

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baby frogs

Question 13

Metamorphosis

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the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages

Question 14

Caecilians

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Caecilians are a group of limbless, serpentine amphibians. They mostly live hidden in the ground and in stream substrates, making them the least familiar order of amphibians

Question 15

Salamanders

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a type of lizerder

Question 16

Frogs

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a animal that hops

Question 17

Toads

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a type of frog

Question 18

Reptiles

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Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today’s turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives. The study of these traditional reptile orders, historically combined with that of modern amphibians, is called herpetology

Question 19

Amniotic Eggs

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Amniotes are a clade of tetrapod vertebrates comprising the reptiles, birds, and mammals. Amniotes lay their eggs on land or retain the fertilized egg within the mother, and are distinguished from the anamniotes, which typically lay their eggs in water.

Question 20

Turtles

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Turtles are diapsids of the order Testudines characterized by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield. “Turtle” may refer to the order as a whole or to fresh-water and sea-dwelling testudines. The order Testudines includes both extant and extinct species

Question 21

Tortoises

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a type of turtle

Question 22

Crocodiles

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Crocodiles or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. Crocodylinae, all of whose members are considered true crocodiles, is classified as a biological subfamily