fish

Question 1

vertebral column

Answer 1

the animal subphylum Vertebra, or vertebrates, of the phylum Chordata

Question 2

neural crest

Answer 2

a collection of multipotent stem cells located at the side of the neural tube proximal to the epidermal layer after neurulation

Question 3

fin

Answer 3

a flattened appendage on various parts of the body of many aquatic vertebrates and some invertebrates, including fish and cetaceans, used for propelling, steering, and balancing

Question 4

scale

Answer 4

a small rigid plate that grows out of the skin of a fish

Question 5

operculum

Answer 5

a structure that closes or covers an aperture

Question 6

atrium

Answer 6

receives oxygen-depleted blood and pumps it into the ventricle, the ventricle is the largest and most muscular chamber of the heart

Question 7

ventricle

Answer 7

muscular chamber that pumps blood out of the heart

Question 8

nephron

Answer 8

each of the functional units in the kidney, consisting of a glomerulus and its associated tubule, through which the glomerular filtrate passes before emerging as urine

Question 9

lateral line

Answer 9

a sensory system that allows fishes to detect weak water motions and pressure gradients

Question 10

spawn

Answer 10

have babies

Question 11

swim bladder

Answer 11

a gas-filled organ in the dorsal coelomic cavity of fish that maintains buoyancy

Question 12

jawless fish

Answer 12

any of various primitive fish of the class Agnatha that lack jaws

Question 13

Cartilaginous fish

Answer 13

a class of jawed fish that contains the cartilaginous fish or chondrichthyians, which all have skeletons primarily composed of cartilage

Question 14

bony fish

Answer 14

a diverse superclass of vertebrate animals that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue

Question 15

bowfin/dogfish

Answer 15

a bony fish, native to North America. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, grindle, grinnel, swamp trout, and choupique

Question 16

brown bullhead

Answer 16

a fish of the family Ictaluridae that is widely distributed in North America

Question 17

brown trout

Answer 17

a species of salmonid ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the genus Salmo

Question 18

burbot/eelpout

Answer 18

a species of coldwater ray-finned fish native to the subarctic regions of the Northern hemisphere

Question 19

common carp

Answer 19

a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia

Question 20

crappie

Answer 20

two species of North American freshwater fish of the genus Pomoxis in the family Centrarchidae

Question 21

flathead catfish

Answer 21

a large species of North American freshwater catfish in the family Ictaluridae

Question 22

lake sturgeon

Answer 22

a North American temperate freshwater fish, one of about 25 species of sturgeon

Question 23

lake trout

Answer 23

a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America

Question 24

largemouth bass

Answer 24

a carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fish in the Centrarchidae family, native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico

Question 25

long-nose gar

Answer 25

a ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae. The genus may have been present in North America for about 100 million years

Question 26

muskellunge

Answer 26

a species of large freshwater predatory fish native to North America. It is the largest member of the pike family, Esocidae

Question 27

northern pike

Answer 27

a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox

Question 28

rainbow trout

Answer 28

a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America

Question 29

sauger

Answer 29

a freshwater perciform fish of the family Percidae that resembles its close relative, the walleye. The species is a member of the largest vertebrate order, the Perciformes. It is the most migratory percid species in North America

Question 30

sheepshead

Answer 30

a marine fish that grows to 76 cm, but commonly reaches 30 to 50 cm. It is deep and compressed in body shape, with five or six dark bars on the side of the body over a gray background, It has sharp dorsal spines

Question 31

smallmouth bass

Answer 31

a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family of the order Perciformes

Question 32

smelt

Answer 32

a family of small fish, the Osmeridae, found in the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans, as well as rivers, streams and lakes in Europe, North America and Northeast Asia

Question 33

sunfish

Answer 33

any fish in the genus Mola

Question 34

walleye

Answer 34

a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern United States

Question 35

white sucker

Answer 35

a species of freshwater cypriniform fish inhabiting the upper Midwest and Northeast in North America, but it is also found as far south as Georgia and as far west as New Mexico

Question 36

yellow bullhead

Answer 36

a species of bullhead catfish, a ray-finned fish that lacks scales

Question 37

yellow perch

Answer 37

a freshwater perciform fish native to much of North America