Cold-Blooded Vertebrate

Question 1

Vertebrates

Answer 1

An animal that has a backbone.

Question 2

Endotherms

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Ectotherms

Answer 3

An organism that needs sources of heat outside of itself.

Question 4

Lateral Line

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Gills

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Jawless Fishes

Answer 6

lampreys, and hag-fish

Question 7

Jawless Fishes

Answer 7

tiger shark, great white shark, and sting ray.

Question 8

Bony Fishes

Answer 8

lung fish, cat fish, and eel`

Question 9

Swim Bladder

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Amphibians

Answer 10

a cold-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that comprises the frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders. They are distinguished by having an aquatic gill-breathing larval stage followed (typically) by a terrestrial lung-breathing adult stage.

Question 11

Lungs

Answer 11

The lungs are a pair of spongy, air-filled organs located on either side of the chest (thorax).

Question 12

tadpole

Answer 12

A tadpole (also called a pollywog) is the larval stage in the life cycle of an amphibian, particularly that of a frog or toad. They are usually wholly aquatic, though some species have tadpoles that are terrestrial.

Question 13

Metamorphosis

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Caecilians

Answer 14

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

Answer 15

Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically 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.

Question 16

Frogs

Answer 16

A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura.

Question 17

Toads

Answer 17

Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands.

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.

Question 19

Amniotic Eggs

Answer 19

Amniotes are a clade of tetrapod vertebrates comprising the reptiles, birds, and mammals.

Question 20

Turtles

Answer 20

Turtles are diapsids of the order Testudines characterized by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield.

Question 21

Tortoises

Answer 21

Tortoises are reptile species of the family Testudinidae of the order Testudines. They are particularly distinguished from other turtles by being land-dwelling, while many other turtle species are at least partly aquatic.

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.

Question 23

Alligators

Answer 23

An alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. The two living species are the American alligator and the Chinese alligator. Additionally, several extinct species of alligator are known from fossil remains.

Question 24

Lizards

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Snakes

Answer 25

Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales.

Question 26

Tuataras

Answer 26

Tuatara are reptiles endemic to New Zealand. Although resembling most lizards, they are part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia. Their name derives from the Māori language, and means “peaks on the back”.