Fish: Wildlife

Question 1

Vertebrate

Answer 1

Has a backbone

Question 2

Vertebral Column

Answer 2

The back bone and/or spinalcolumn

Question 3

Neural Crest

Answer 3

migratory cell population unique to vertebrates that gives rise to a diverse cell lineage including melanocytes, craniofacial cartilage and bone, smooth muscle, peripheral and enteric neurons and glia

Question 4

Closed Circulatory System

Answer 4

structured, always carried the blood inside the blood vessels. The vessels make up the pumping circut of the body and can be found around the whole thing

Question 5

Cycloid Scales

Answer 5

appear to be the inner layer of ganoid or cosmoid scales. Found in carps and similar fishes, they are thin, large, round or oval, and arranged in an overlapping pattern; growth rings are evident on the free edges.

Question 6

Placoid Scales

Answer 6

Tough scales that cover the skin of things like sharks and rays.

Question 7

Ganoid Scales

Answer 7

Hard outer layer

Question 8

Gills

Answer 8

Used on sea animals to extract oxygen out of the water and put it into the blood stream. Their way of breathing.

Question 9

Lateral Line

Answer 9

system of sense organs found in aquatic vertebrates, mainly fish, used to detect movement and vibration in the surrounding water.

Question 10

Spawning

Answer 10

external method of reproduction where the female releases many unfertilised eggs into the water. At the same time, a male or many males release a lot of sperm into the water which fertilises some of these eggs.

Question 11

Jaw-less Fish

Answer 11

Marine and freshwater fish lacking a jaw and apendages

Question 12

Cartilaginous Fish

Answer 12

fish with a skeleton made of cartilage.

Question 13

Bony Fish

Answer 13

Fish with the skeleton made of bone. teeth are also fixed onto the upper jaw.

Question 14

Lobe-finned Fish

Answer 14

Have a central appendage in their fins containing many bones and muscles.

Question 15

long fish with a stubby tail

Answer 15

Bowfish/Dogfish

Question 16

whiskers

Answer 16

Brown Bullhead

Question 17

Salmon like with small equally sized spots

Answer 17

Brown Trout

Question 18

Eel like, spots look similar to ameba

Answer 18

Burbot/Eelpout

Question 19

Upside down with a round bottom and whiskers

Answer 19

Channel Catfish

Question 20

big neck hump with scaley look

Answer 20

Common Carp

Question 21

smallish sized and speckled

Answer 21

Crappie

Question 22

Slim body with a flat head

Answer 22

Flathead Catfish

Question 23

Flat, long nose

Answer 23

Lake Stugeon

Question 24

Line in the middle of its body and speckled

Answer 24

Lake Trout

Question 25

Lower jaw of fish extended

Answer 25

Largemouth Bass

Question 26

Big, long snout, sharp teeth, sword fish like

Answer 26

Long-nose Gar

Question 27

Long, pointed nose and top fin on back

Answer 27

Muskellunge

Question 28

Slanted head, spots, back fin, 3 lower fins

Answer 28

Northern Pike

Question 29

Pinkstrip throug. The middle yellow top

Answer 29

Rainbow trrout

Question 30

2 top and bottom fins and speckled

Answer 30

Sauger

Question 31

stripped black and white

Answer 31

Sheepshead

Question 32

razor top and normal top fins plus zebra pattern

Answer 32

Small Mouth Bass

Question 33

Long, thin , and silvery

Answer 33

Smelt

Question 34

Yellow bottom and bluish top side

Answer 34

Sunfish

Question 35

razor and normal fins with a long white belly

Answer 35

Walleye

Question 36

Rounded head/mouth and 1 top fin and 3 bottom

Answer 36

White Sucker

Question 37

All yellow and whiskers

Answer 37

Yellow Bullhead

Question 38

Stripped and yellowish

Answer 38

Yellow Perch