Fish and Fishing

Question 1

Fancy name for a spine

Answer 1

Vertebral Column

Question 2

Are a temporary group of cells unique to vertebrates that arise from the embryonic ectoderm cell layer

Answer 2

Neural Crest

Question 3

Appendage on a fish that helps with swimming

Answer 3

Fin

Question 4

Each of the small, thin horn-like or bony plates protecting the skin of fish and reptiles, typically overlapping one another.

Answer 4

Scale

Question 5

Division between the head and the body of a fish, near the gills.

Answer 5

Operculum

Question 6

Each of the two upper cavities of the heart from which blood is passed to the ventricles. The right atrium receives deoxygenated blood from the veins of the body; the left atrium receives oxygenated blood from the pulmonary vein.

Answer 6

Atrium

Question 7

A hollow part or cavity in an organ, in particular. Each of the two main chambers of the heart, left and right. Each of the four connected fluid-filled cavities in the center of the brain.

Answer 7

Ventricle

Question 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.

Answer 8

Nephron

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Lateral Line

Question 10

Release or deposit eggs.

Answer 10

Spawning

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Swim Bladder

Question 12

Jaws, fins, and stomachs are absent for fish like leeches..

Answer 12

Jawless Fish

Question 13

Fish with skeletons made of cartilage like sharks.

Answer 13

Cartilaginous

Question 14

Normal bones and has jaws. What’s this kind of fish?

Answer 14

Bony Fish