Science Test 8 Study guide 7/8

A friend describes to you an animal that has four legs. Because the animal has four legs, you can conclude that the animal must be a?

Tetrapod

What is the longest-living animal?

Tortoise

What is the best reason why reptiles are considered cold-blooded?

A reptile must move to a new environment to change its body temperature

The largest snake in the world is the?

Anaconda

Looked like giant horned lizards with bony eyelid plates and club-like tails

Ankylosaurs

If a person gets bit by a venomous snake, what type of medicine would he be given to counteract the venom?

Antivenin

In which group do frogs and toads belong

Anurans

Largest group of snakes?

Blind snakes

Which group contains amphibians with long bodies and no limbs

Caecilians

What is a turtle's upper shell, which covers its back?

Carapace

Chondricthyes and Scylostomata are two classses of _______fish.

Cartilaginous

Which group of cartilaginous fish have gill covers

Chimaeras

What color-containing cells give reptiles the ability to change color?

Chromatophores

Largest group of snakes

Colubrids

Squeeze prey until it dies

Constrictors

Which North American Elwood's are known for their distinctive color pattern that has red bands bordering yellow bands?

Coral snake

A crocodilian with a narrow snout and a tooth that is visible when its jaw is closed is a?

Crocodile

Which group of reptiles is known for providing parental care for their young?

Crocodilians

Because their bites affect the circulatory system and cause red blood cells to burst, rattlesnakes have ____________ venom.

Hemotoxic

What are a shark's tooth-like placoid scales called

Denticles

What process involves a caecilians growing a new layer of fat in order to feed its young?

Dermatophagy

What term refers to an iguanid's throat fan?

Dewlap

To consume large meals that snakes catch, they are given a set of ____________-hinged jaws.

Double

Which common family of venomous snakes have immovable fangs?

Elapids

Some fish have electric organs that are designed with current-generating cells called?

Electrocytes

The difference between fish scales and reptile scales are?

Fish scales are hardened by bone; reptile scales are hardened by keratin.

What group consists of small, flat-bodied lizards characterized by adhesive toe pads?

Geckos

Which cartilaginous fish has slime glands that help create a slippery coating around it

Hagfish

What extinct, reptile-like aquatic animal looked very much like a dolphin?

Ichthyosaurus

Before you walk into an enclosed zoo exhibit,you see a sign that says "The largest living lizard." What animal do you expect to see?

Komodo dragon

The type of movement in which a snake slithers along a S-shaped curve is _____________.

Lateral undulation

The type of fin that is made of a bone surrounded by muscle is the __________fin.

Lobed

Shark eggs are laid inside a protective case called a?

Mermaid's purse

The perm-containing fluid released by a male fish is called?

Milt

What are a fish's W-shaped bands of skeletal muscle called?

Myomeres

What is the name for a fish's hard, movable gill cover?

Operculum

Had a bony, dome-shaped head

Pachycephalosaurs

The light-producing organ of fish is a?

Photophor

What organ do some vipers use to detect temperature?

Pit organ

Turtle shells have a lower______that covers the abdomen.

Plastron

Dinosaurs of the sea with paddle shaped feet and legs and long necks

Plesiosaurs

Similar to modern bats

Pterosaurs

Lizards break off their tails in order to defend themselves; they are able to do this because their tails , ____________or grow back.

Regenerate

On what characteristics do scientist base the three main categories of salamanders

Reproduction

What is a sawfish's long and unusual nose called?

Rostrum

The only known shark that comes to the surface to gulp air, using its stomach as a swim bladder, is the?

Sand tiger shark

Herbivores with long necks

Sauropods

What are the "squares" of a turtle's shell called?

Scutes

In one type of locomotion, a snake moves across sandy ground by supporting part of its body at several points while moving the rest of its body to the side. This is called______________movement.

Sidewinding

What sense would be reduced if a snake did not have a Jacobson's organ?

Smell

Common freshwater turtles that live in muddy waters and eat fish, birds, and insects are ______turtles.

Snapping

What is the transparent eye cover of a gecko?

Spectacle

What are the breeding openings that sharks and rays have behind their eyes

Spiracles

Bony fish can stay suspended in water due to a gas-filled organ called a?

Swim bladder

The larvae of frogs and toads are called?

Tadpoles

Walked on two legs; includes T.rex

Theropods

Which lizard-like reptile has a parietal eye?

Tuatara

Venomous snakes with fangs that fold against the roof of the mouth when not in use.

Vipers

What is the largest known fish?

Whale shark

What is the protective layer that surrounds the nutrient-filled egg of a reptile

amnion