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Marine Reptiles, Birds, And Mammals Flashcards

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Amphibians

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1st land tetrapods

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Tetrapods

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Having 4 limbs

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Reptiles

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Evolved from Amphibians

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Birds and Mammals

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Evolved from different groups reptiles

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Poilkilterms

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Internal temps varies, cold blooded

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Ectotherms

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Metabolic rates varies with temp

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Carapace

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Bodies enclosed by a shell that is infused to a backbone

-like a sea turtle

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Arribada

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Mass nesting, 100-200 eggs

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Temperature dependent sex determination

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  • nest incubated at higher temps: hatch as females

- global climate change: sex ratios

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Why are sea turtles in endangered?

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Meat
Tortoiseshell jewelry
Leather 
Artificial light
Collection of eggs 
Net entailment 
Plastic consumption
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Endangered

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Probably not going to survive

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Ovoviviparous

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Give birth to live young

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Marine iguana

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Herbivores
Inhabit Galapagos island
Evolved from land iguanas

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Salt water crocodile

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Inhibit mangrove swamps (Indian Ocean, Australia, some western pacific islands

  • live mostly on the coast
  • most aggressive
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What qualities a bird to be considered a seabird?

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Spend a significant portion of their life at sea
Homeotherms
Endothermic
Covered in waterproof feathers 
Oil glands at base of the tail
Light hollow bones
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Seabirds and reproduction

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Breed in large colonies
Mate for life
Build nests on ground
Lay fewer eggs: parental care

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Beluga whale creature of the week

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Mammal
Completely white due to living in the Arctic
Cetacean
No dorsal fin

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Penguins

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Powerful swimmers with streamline bodies
Flightless
Clumsy on land because they are near sided
Live only in the Southern Hemisphere

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What is unique about penguins and reproduction

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Mate for life
Lay eggs during coldest time so they hatch during winter
Use parental care

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Name 3 types of Tubenoses

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Albatrosses
Shearriaters
Petvels

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Salt glands

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Empty into nostrils

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Pelicans and related birds have

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Have a pouch below beaks

Feed by plunging into the water to catch fish

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Comorants birds have

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Black, long-necked

Five to purse prey

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Frigate birds

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Narrow wings, long forked tail
Force other seabirds to regulate
Not waterproof

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Gulls and related birds

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Common and widespread
Predators and scavengers
Congregate near piers, garbage dumps
Often steal eggs from other birds

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Tern birds

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Hover over prey before plunging for it

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Puffins

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Cold water divers
Heavy beak
Winds adapted for swimming

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Shorebirds

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Plovers, sand pipers 
Not true sea birds 
Wading 
Do not swim 
Common on beach, estuanes, costal marshes
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What class are mammals in

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Mammalia

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Mammals are

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Endotherms
Homeotherms
Viviparous
Nourished by maternal bloodstream through placenta
Use parental care
Feed by mammary gland
Complex bladder, storage and process into

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Viviparous

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Live bearing, embryos developed within mothers body

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What classifies under pinnipeds (fin footed)

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Seals, sea lions, walrus

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Blubber

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Think layer of fat for insulation, food reserve buoyancy

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Pinnipeds have/

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Paddle shaped flippers
Rest and breed on land 
Evolved from terresial carnivores (lions, tigers, and bears) 
Predators feed on squid and krill
Bristly hair: protection against cold
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What is the difference between seals and seal lions

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Seals Rear flippers that cannot be moved forward, swim with rear flippers
Sea lions are earred seals, cannot move rear flippers swim w broad front flippers

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