Fish

Question 1

The “spine”

Answer 1

Vertebral Column

Question 2

Cells are a temporary group of cells unique to the vertebrates that arise from the embryonic ectoderm

Answer 2

Neural Crest

Question 3

What fish use to propel through the water.

Answer 3

Fin

Question 4

Bony plates protecting the skin of fish.

Answer 4

Scale

Question 5

A structure that covers the gill.

Answer 5

Operculum

Question 6

Chamber of the heart that receives blood from the veins.

Answer 6

Atrium

Question 7

Two main chambers of the heart. (Right and Left)

Answer 7

Ventricle

Question 8

Each of the functional units in the kidney.

Answer 8

Nephron

Question 9

Visible line along the side of the fish.

Answer 9

Lateral Line

Question 10

Eggs and sperm released by aquatic animals.

Answer 10

Spawning

Question 11

A gas-filled sac present in the body of bony fishes used to control buoyancy,

Answer 11

Swim Bladder

Question 12

ex: Lampreys. Long cylindrical body.

Answer 12

Jawless fish

Question 13

ex: Sharks. Skeleton of cartilage instead of bone.

Answer 13

Cartilaginous Fish

Question 14

ex: Most modern fish. Skeleton of bone.

Answer 14

Bony Fish

Question 15

Spanning 60 Million years from the end of the Silurian to the beginning of the Carboniferous.

Answer 15

Devonian Period

Question 16

Large blunt head and long dorsal fin.

Answer 16

Bowfin/Dogfish

Question 17

Two dorsal fins, and adipose fin.

Answer 17

Brown Bullhead

Question 18

Spotted at top.

Answer 18

Brown Trout

Question 19

Cross between a catfish and eel.

Answer 19

Burbot

Question 20

Deeply forked tail fin.

Answer 20

Channel Catfish

Question 21

Dark and a pattern of black spots.

Answer 21

Common Carp

Question 22

Ranging from dark olive to black, with silvery sides and black blotches and stripes.

Answer 22

Crappie

Question 23

Catfish with flat heads.

Answer 23

Flathead Catfish

Question 24

Very big fish

Answer 24

Lake Sturgeon

Question 25

White spotted, brown color, with yellow on the belly.

Answer 25

Lake trout

Question 26

Green with dark blotches that form a horizontal stripe along the middle of the fish on either side.

Answer 26

Largemouth Bass

Question 27

Long narrow snouts more than twice as long as their head.

Answer 27

Long-nose Gar

Question 28

Largest member of the pike family.

Answer 28

Muskellunge

Question 29

Dark greenish color, with white spots and a dark stomach.

Answer 29

Northern Pike

Question 30

Multicolored fish.

Answer 30

Rainbow Trout

Question 31

Ugly fish, with clear dorsal fin with brown spots. Dark brown color with almost white stomach.

Answer 31

Sauger

Question 32

Oval shaped head, blunt snout and nearly horizontal mouth. Has stripes on it.

Answer 32

Sheepshead

Question 33

Brown, red eyes, and dark brown vertical bands.

Answer 33

Smallmouth Bass

Question 34

Almost look like sardines.

Answer 34

Smelt

Question 35

Ray-finned, with black or reddish spots. also an olive green color

Answer 35

Sunfish

Question 36

Large Long fish, with two dorsal fins that are spiky and small ventral fins.

Answer 36

Walleye

Question 37

Looks like a very large bottom feeder.

Answer 37

White Sucker

Question 38

A weird yellow color, with long whiskers.

Answer 38

Yellow Bullhead

Question 39

Green fish, with brown stripes, and a reddish ventral fins.

Answer 39

Yellow Perch