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