MN Fish ID

Question 1

the central body or spine of the vertebra

Answer 1

Vertebral Column

Question 2

a transient embryonic structure in vertebrates that gives rise to most of the peripheral nervous system

Answer 2

Neural crest

Question 3

foils that produce lift or thrust, or provide the ability to steer or stabilize motion while traveling in water or air

Answer 3

Fin

Question 4

protective layer on the outside of fish

Answer 4

Scale

Question 5

a structure that closes or covers an aperture.

Answer 5

Operculum

Question 6

the upper chamber through which blood enters the ventricles of the heart.

Answer 6

Atrium

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Ventricle

Question 8

The structural and functional unit of the kidney

Answer 8

Nephron

Question 9

A line where fish can sense movement

Answer 9

Lateral line

Question 10

Reproducing more of that species

Answer 10

Spawning

Question 11

A Buoyant that helps the fish go up or down in the water

Answer 11

Swim bladder

Question 12

jawed vertebrates with paired fins, paired nares, scales, a heart with its chambers in series, and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone.

Answer 12

Cartilaginous fish

Question 13

Sturgeon, catfish, minnow and carp. fish that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue and not cartilage

Answer 13

Bony fish

Question 14

the ugly fish

Answer 14

Bowfin/Dogfish

Question 15

brown ugly fish. Catfish whiskers

Answer 15

Brown Bullhead

Question 16

brown, spotted fish with little fang on botton lip

Answer 16

Brown Trout

Question 17

giant eel looking fish

Answer 17

Burbot/Eelpout

Question 18

greyish fish build for swimming up strem

Answer 18

Channel Catfish

Question 19

dangling little snot looking things from mouth. feed at bottom of lakes

Answer 19

Common Carp

Question 20

the yellow fish we catch commonly that’s small

Answer 20

Yellow Perch

Question 21

silvery-gray to green in color and show irregular or mottled black splotches over the entire body.

Answer 21

Crappie

Question 22

compressed head with whiskers

Answer 22

Flathead Catfish

Question 23

shark looking

Answer 23

Lake Sturgeon

Question 24

large fish with large fin on top

Answer 24

Lake Trout

Question 25

Rainbow river and lake fish

Answer 25

Rainbow Trout

Question 26

commonly caught fish. not big in size

Answer 26

Sunfish

Question 27

a freshwater perciform fisheries native to much of North America

Answer 27

Yellow Perch

Question 28

a ray-finned fish that lacks scales

Answer 28

Yellow Bullhead

Question 29

White/silver bottom feeder

Answer 29

White Sucker

Question 30

WHite/silver bottom feeder

Answer 30

White Sucker

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Sauger

Question 32

species of salmonid native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America

Answer 32

Rainbow Trout

Question 33

a carnivorous freshwater gamefish in the Centrarchidae family, a species of black bass native to the eastern and central United States and northern Mexico

Answer 33

Largemouth Bass

Question 34

Long nosed lanky fish

Answer 34

Long-nose Gar

Question 35

a species of large, relatively uncommon freshwater fish native to North America

Answer 35

Muskellunge

Question 36

typical of brackish and fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere.

Answer 36

Northern Pike

Question 37

North American fresh water fish in the sunfish family Centrarchidae. Name is related to poop

Answer 37

Crappie