The Fifth Day (The Aquatic Kingdom)

Question 1

On what day of creation were aquatic creatures created?

Answer 1

on the 5th day

Question 2

Name the 2 simple categories into which aquatic creatures can be grouped

Answer 2

vertebrates & invertebrates

Question 3

What are jawless fish called?

Answer 3

Agnatha

Question 4

Mammals are characterized by what 7 features?

Answer 4

1) warm-blooded
2) hairy
3) vertebrates
4) young are nursed by milk from the female
5) often (but not always) have 2 pair of limbs
6) four-chambered heart
7) large lungs

Question 5

What do you call a creature that has a backbone?

Answer 5

A vertebrate

Question 6

What do you call a creature that does not have a backbone?

Answer 6

An invertebrate

Question 7

List the 5 categories of vertebrates

Answer 7

1) Osteichthyes
2) Chondrichthyes
3) Agnatha
4) Aquatic Mammals
5) Aquatic Reptiles

Question 8

What are Osteichthyes?

Answer 8

Bony Fish

Question 9

What’s the first greek root of Osteichthyes, and what does it mean?

Answer 9

Osteo, which means bone

Question 10

What’s the second greek root of Osteichthyes, and what does it mean?

Answer 10

Ichthus, which means fish

Question 11

In what clever way did early Christians use the greek word Ichthus?

Answer 11

They made an acronym using the letters of the word Ichthus to stand for “Jesus Christ God’s Son Savior”