Cold Blooded Vertebrates Flashcards
What are Vertebrates?
Animals with a backbone and spine also have a cranium and skull.
What is endothermic?
A physical process of absorbing heat from its own body.
What is ectothermic?
A process that cold-blooded animals use to absorb heat externally like from the sun.
lateral line
A sensory system inside fish and amphibians that detect movement, vibration, and pressure.
Gills
A system in aquatic animals that exchanges oxygen in water.
Jawless Fishes
A fish with no jaws.
cartilaginous Fishes
fishes with a jaw.
Bony Fishes
fishes with scales.
Swim Bladder
A gas filled organ in a fish that helps with buoyancy.
Amphibians
ectothermic four-limbed vertabrate
Lungs
A part of the respiratory system in animals to help them breathe.
Tadpole
the larval stage in the biological life cycle of an amphibian.
Metamorphosis
a biological process by which an animal physically develops including birth transformation or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change.
Amniotic eggs
a type of egg that are characterized by the presence of several membranes that protect and nourish the developing embryo.
Reptiles
cold Blooded, four limbs, and tetrapods.
