Science thing Flashcards
An animal that has a backbone
Vertabrates
An animal that can use body heat from chemical reactions in the body’s cell to maintain a constant body tempratutre
Endotherms
An organism that needs sources of heat outside itself
Ectotherms
A faint line visable on both sides of a fish’s body that runs the lenght of the body and marks the location of sense organs that detect vibration in the water
Lateral line
A respiratory organ in which oxygen from the water is exchanged with carbon from blood
gills
Haggish, Lamprey
Jaw less fish
Sawfish, Stingrays, and sharks
Cartilaginous fish
Eel, flying fish, parrot fish
Bony Fish
In bony fish, a gas filled sac that used to control buoyancy; also known as a gas bladder
Swim Bladder
they are ectotherms, slimy and live near or in water
Amphibians
A respiratory organ in which oxygen from the air is exchanged with carbon from the blood
Lung
the aquatic, fish shaped larva of frog or toad
Tadpole
When an insect transforms into an adult form
Metamorphosis
A group of limbless serpentlike amphibians
Caecilians
Amphibian with lizard like appearance
Salamanders
