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Chordates have a notochord at some point in life. |
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Chordates have gills. |
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Cordates have a nerve chord. |
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Chordates have gill slits at some point in life |
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| What has a backbone that is part of an internal skeleton? |
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| What type of animal has a body that does not produce much heat? |
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What type of animal changes temperature when the environment changes?
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| What type of animal regulates it's own body temperature? |
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| What type of animal is NOT affected by the environment |
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| The main function of the gills and lungs is to get what into the blood stream? |
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| What distinguishes the major types of fish? (2 answers) |
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| What type of fish have no scales and no jaws? |
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| What type of fish have jaws and scales but a skeleton made of Cartilage? |
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| What type of fish have jaws, scales and a skeleton made of bone? |
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| Which type of fish makes up 95% of all fish? |
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| What type of fish is a shark? |
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| What type of fish is a catfish? |
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Sharks have skeletons made of hard bone |
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Sharks have a two-loop circulatory system |
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Sharks have a 2-loop circulatory system |
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Unlike fish, sharks cannot pump water over their gills. |
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| What does the word amphibian mean? |
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| What is a vertebrate that is ectothermic and spends its early life in water? |
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| Do fish have external or internal fertilization? |
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| Do amphibians have external or internal fertilization? |
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Fishes and Amphibians descended from reptiles |
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Mammals and birds descended from reptiles. |
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| What are the small bones that form the backbone called? |
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| What are the skeletons of lampreys and hagfishes made of? |
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| What helps a bony fish stabilize itself? |
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| What are reptiles covered by a protective shell called? |
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| What do most salamanders lose during metamorphosis? |
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| Who is more sensitive to the environment, amphibians or reptiles? |
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| How could an ecotherm warm up its body on a cold day? |
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| Go in the sun to warm up. |
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| What could an ectotherm due to cool down? |
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| Go underground or in the water. |
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| What do snakes only have one of? |
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| What are two things that lizards have that snakes don't? |
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| What is an ectothermic vertebrae that has lungs and scaly skin? |
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| What do reptiles have that can protect against environmental changes? |
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| Why do amphibians have a hard time fighting against environmental changes? |
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| Whose eggs have a better chance of surviving harsh environmental changes?Why? |
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| Reptiles, because they have a shell. Amphibians don't. |
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| What are two large carnivorous reptiles that care for their young? |
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| Alligators and crocidiles |
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| What type of scientist studies extinct organisms and fossil structure? |
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