Fish and Fishing

Question 1

Vertebral Column

Answer 1

Fish spine.

Question 2

Neural crest

Answer 2

A group of ectodermal cells that develop into a variety of tissues, including spinal and autonomic ganglia, connective tissue around the brain and spinal cord, and parts of the facial bones.

Question 3

Fin

Answer 3

To help it move, swim, and balance.

Question 4

Scale

Answer 4

Protective scales outside the fish that protect it.

Question 5

Operculum

Answer 5

A bony plate that covers and protects the gills of most bony fishes.

Question 6

Atrium

Answer 6

A chamber of the heart that receives blood from the veins and forces it by muscular contraction into a ventricle.

Question 7

Ventricle

Answer 7

A chamber of the heart that receives blood from one or more atria and pumps it by muscular contraction into the arteries.

Question 8

Nephron

Answer 8

one of the functional units of the kidney that filters the blood, selectively reabsorbs substances and excretes nitrogenous waste, excess water, and salts in the form of urine.

Question 9

Lateral line

Answer 9

A system of sense organs found in aquatic vertebrates, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients in the surrounding water.

Question 10

Spawning

Answer 10

Release or deposit eggs.

Question 11

Swim bladder

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Jawless fish

Answer 12

Agnatha is a superclass of jawless fish in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, consisting of both present and extinct species.

Question 13

Cartilaginous fish

Answer 13

Cartilaginous fish are fish that have a skeleton made of cartilage, rather than bone.

Question 14

Bony fish

Answer 14

Osteichthyes, popularly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse taxonomic group of fish that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue, as opposed to cartilage.

Question 15

Bowfin/Dogfish

Answer 15

Bowfin are bony fishes related to gars in the infraclass Holostei. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, griddle, grinnel, swamp trout and choupique.

Question 16

Brown Bullhead

Answer 16

The brown bullhead is a fish of the Ictaluridae family that is widely distributed in North America. It is a species of bullhead catfish and is similar to the black bullhead and yellow bullhead.

Question 17

Brown Trout

Answer 17

The brown trout is a European species of salmonid fish that has been widely introduced into suitable environments globally.

Question 18

Burbot

Answer 18

The burbot is the only gadiform freshwater fish. It is also known as bubbot, mariah, freshwater ling, the lawyer, coney-fish, lingcod, freshwater cusk, and eelpout.

Question 19

Channel Catfish

Answer 19

The channel catfish is North America’s most numerous catfish species. It is the official fish of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Tennessee, and is informally referred to as a “channel cat”.

Question 20

Common Carp

Answer 20

The common carp or European carp is a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia.

Question 21

Crappie

Answer 21

Crappies are a genus, Pomoxis, of North American fresh water fish in the sunfish family Centrarchidae.

Question 22

Flathead Catfish

Answer 22

The flathead catfish, also called by several names including mudcat or shovelhead cat, is a large species of North American freshwater catfish.

Question 23

Lake Sturgeon

Answer 23

The lake sturgeon, also known as the rock sturgeon, is a North American temperate freshwater fish, one of about 25 species of sturgeon.

Question 24

Lake Trout

Answer 24

Lake trout is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America.

Question 25

Largemouth Bass

Answer 25

The largemouth bass is a freshwater gamefish in the Centrarchidae family, a species of black bass native to North America.

Question 26

Long-nose Gar

Answer 26

The longnose gar is a primitive ray-finned fish of the gar family.

Question 27

Muskellunge

Answer 27

The muskellunge, also known as muskelunge, muscallonge, milliganong, or maskinonge, is a species of large, relatively uncommon freshwater fish native to North America.

Question 28

Northern Pike

Answer 28

The northern pike, known simply as a pike in Britain, Ireland, most of Canada, and most parts of the United States, is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox. They are typical of brackish and fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere.

Question 29

Rainbow Trout

Answer 29

The rainbow trout is a trout and species of salmonid native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America.

Question 30

Sauger

Answer 30

The sauger is a freshwater perciform fish of the family Percidae which resembles its close relative the walleye.

Question 31

Sheepshead

Answer 31

Archosargus probatocephalus, the sheepshead, is a marine fish that grows to 76 cm, but commonly reaches 30 to 50 cm.

Question 32

Smallmouth Bass

Answer 32

The smallmouth bass is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family of the order Perciformes. It is the type species of its genus.

Question 33

Smelt

Answer 33

Smelts are a family of small fish, the Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Question 34

Sunfish

Answer 34

Centrarchidae are a family of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the order Perciformes. The type genus is Centrarchus.

Question 35

Walleye

Answer 35

Walleye, also called the yellow pike, is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern United States.

Question 36

White Sucker

Answer 36

The white sucker is a freshwater cypriniform fish inhabiting the upper Midwest and Northeast in North America, but is also found as far south as Georgia and New Mexico in the south and west.

Question 37

Yellow Bullhead

Answer 37

The yellow bullhead is a species of bullhead catfish that is a ray-finned fish that lacks scales.

Question 38

Yellow Perch

Answer 38

The yellow perch, commonly referred to as perch, is a freshwater perciform fish native to much of North America.