What type of animal has the highest metabolism, thus the highest body temperature?

reptiles birds mammals fish

What is an example of a Lagomorpha?

seal goat rabbit fox

What type of mammal is in the order Chiroptera?

rats squirrels monkeys bats

What is an example of a songbird?

stork falcon penguin bluebird

What is an example of a shorebird?

plover owl flamingo ostrich

Pouched mammals are called Monotremes Marsupials Placental

The only pouched mammal native to North America is the cuscus opossum kangaroo wambat

What type of mammal is in the order Proboscadea?

zebras elephants manatees cows

What type of feather gives birds their streamline shape?

down contour flight synthetic

Why do scientists think birds evolved from reptiles?

jelly-like eggs, scaly skin, fossil records amniotic eggs, smooth skin, fossil records jelly-like eggs, smooth skin, fossil records amniotic eggs, scaly skin, fossil records

All mammals have what?

pouches fingers and toes three chambered heart hair

Which one means “two-halves”?

Cephalopod Gastropod Bivalve Tunicate

Which group has members that can live either in salt water, freshwater, or on land?

Gastropods Imeris Cephalopods Bivalves

Which name means “head foot”?

Bivalve Cephalopod Gastropod Imeris

What is the name of the teeth in frogs that crushes prey?

maxillary incisors vomerine deciduous

Amphibians lay jelly-like eggs in the water, reptiles lay amniotic eggs in the water amniotic eggs on land jelly-like eggs in the water jelly-like eggs on land

Which of the following is venomous?

tuatara Komodo Dragon Mexican Bearded Lizard Iguanas

Which organism is a gastropod?

squid clam snail octopus

Which organism can make a pearl if a piece of sand gets between the mantle and shell?

Gastropods Bivalves Cephalopods Iderinas

Which organism is a Cephalopod?

squid slug oyster mussel

Which means “stomach foot”?

Gastropod Bivalve Cephalopod Gastrometacarp

Which one means “two-halves”?

Cephalopod Gastropod Bivalve Tunicate

What is the name of the waterproof protein in reptile skin?

histone collagen keratin aloe vera

What is the name of the bottom part of a turtle’s shell?

ventral plate carapace plastron ventral shield

The pork tapeworm’s Genus species name is Fasciolopsis hepatica Taenia solium Schistosoma mansoni Clonorchis sinensis

The first, or invertebrate host is called the indirect complete intermediate definitive

The common name of Taeniarynchus saginatus is pork tapeworm beef tapeworm dog tapeworm gummi tapeworm

Which order do turtle/tortoises belong?

Squamata Crocodilia Rhychocephalia Testudines

Which group of reptiles has the most species?

snakes and lizards turtles and tortoises alligators and crocodiles tuataras

The Genus name of Planaria is Microstomium Phagocata Dugesia Clonorchis

The worms that are leaf shaped and parasites with complex life cycles are Hirundinea Trematoda Turbellaria Cestoda

The Chinese liver fluke’s Genus species name is Fasciolopsis hepatica Taenia solium Schistosoma mansoni Clonorchis sinensis

Gas exchange in the gills takes place in the gill slits arches operculums filaments

Filter feeding sharks, like the whale shark and basking filter the water using baleen gill rakers fibrinogen coffee filters

Hagfish are considered predators parasites scavengers omnivores

The free-living flatworms are placed in the class Cestodea Turbellaria Trematoda Triclada

The simple eyespots seen in most turbellarians are called ocelli auricles statocysts chemoreceptors

Tapeworms lack reproductive organs a mouth hooks suckers

The holdfast structure of a tapeworm is called the strobila acetabulum scolex proglottid

The development of a head region on a bilaterally symmetrical animal is called organ organization cephalization diploblastic organization centralization

Members of the Turbellaria include free-living flatworms monogenetic flukes tapeworms roundworms

Members of the Cestoda include free-living flatworms monogenetic flukes tapeworms roundworms

Agnatha means cartilage fish bony plates bony fish jawless fish

Swimming with the mouth open to allow water to passively flow over the gills is called buccal pharyngeal pumping pneumatic coastal ram ventilation

Skates and rays have holes/gill slits in the top of their heads called spiracles opercula nares pneumatophores

The water flow over the gills in fish is called osmotic active countercurrent exchange

Fish mostly regulate buoyancy by adjusting the volume of gas/air in the stomach the gills the body tissues the swim bladder

In the epidermis of fish skin, sensory pits make up the utriculi pneumatic pits lateral line system sacculi

The majority of fish reproduce by laying eggs, then the male covers them with sperm (external fertilization) called viviparous ovoviviparous oviparous brooders

The tail of sharks is known as _________ cercal, because the top lobe is larger than the bottom lobe.

homo hetero iso dorci

Skates and rays are flattened dorsoventrally ventrolaterally dorsolaterally anteriorposteriorly

Sharks stay buoyant using swim bladder filled with oil gas filled swim bladder oily liver life preservers

Binomial nomenclature uses a two-part name to designate each kind of organism. The two parts of the name are family and phylum genus and family species and class genus and species

The science of life is called zoology ecology physiology biology

The largest annelid class is ____________, and its members are primarily marine.

chaetognatha oligochaeta hirundinea polychaeta

Polychaetes are distinguished by lateral extensions of the body called parapodia setae prostomi palps

Earthworms belong to the Annelid class Hirundinea Chaetognatha Polychaeta Oligochaeta

The structure on an earthworm used for mucus secretion during copulation in Oligochaetes is the clitellum parapodia atoke epitoke

Leeches belong to the Annelid class Oligochaeta Polychaeta Hirundinea Scopecium

The anticoagulant secreted by leech salivary glands is hirudin saliva salivary amylase hemerythrin

Over the past several thousand years leeches have been used by humans to attack foreign invaders to remove excess blood as food to prevent malaria

Osteichthyes means cartilage fish bony plates bony fish jawless fish

Chondrichthyes means cartilage fish bony plates bony fish jawless fish

The science called _______ studies the fossil record.

biogeography paleontology archeology anthropology

Important direct evidence that plants and animals existed on this planet in the past comes from comparative anatomy homology fossils comparative biochemistry

Anatomical structures which have no apparent function are typically examples of _____ structures.

fossil vestigial redundant convergent

Ecology is the study of taxonomic relationships fossil organisms the worldwide distribution of organisms the interaction of organisms with each other and their environment

The study of the mechanisms of transmission of traits from parents to offspring is genetics histology cytology embryology

The study of fishes is mammalogy ornithology ichthyology herpetology

The study of insects is mammalogy entomology herpetology ichthyology

The study of amphibians and reptiles is ornithology protozoology mammalogy herpetology

The study of birds is ornithology herpetology mammalogy entomology

One of the simplest and most common forms of sexual reproduction among protists is budding fragmentation schizogony binary fission multiple fission

The largest phylum of protozoans is Apicomplexa Zoomastigophora Sarcomastigophora Ciliophora Sporozoa

Red Tides are caused by certain members of the class Phytomastigophora called radiolarians foraminiferans sporozoans dinoflagellates

The Zoomastigophoran Trypanosoma is the causal organism of the disease sleeping sickness malaria leishmaniasis trichina

The vectors of Trypanosoma are Aedes mosquitos All species of flies Tsetse flies All species of mosquitos

Toxoplasmosis is primarily carried to humans by tsetse flies mosquitos chickens cats

An economically important disease of the poultry industry is trypanosomiasis pebrine foul brood coccidiosis

An important parasitic ciliate that lives in the large intestines of humans, pigs, and other mammals is E. gingivalis T. brucei B. coli P. falciparum

The Genus of sporozoans that has been responsible for the most human suffering and deaths is Toxoplasma Isospora Trypanosoma Plasmodium

The White Cliffs of Dover are an example of/an ______ chalk deposit.

Foraminiferan Raiolarians Heliozoan Diffugian

The medusa body form is commonly called a jellyfish and is buoyant because it has a lot of the material called hydranth cnidocil rhopalium mesoglea

The support system is called a hydrostatic skeleton, which means that it is based on the amount of spicules calcium deposits gas pressure water pressure

When a sea anemone has both sexes it is said to be confused monoecious diploid dioecious

The single large opening at the top of the spongocoel is the osculum atriopore ostium mouth

Sponges may gain nutrition by all of the following modes except filtration trapping food items with the collar cells active transport of nutrients active predation

An intracellular structure which is a fluid filled capsule holding a coiled, hollow tube is the cnidocyte choanocyate cnidocil nematocyst

The ____________ body form of a cnidarian is typically asexual and sessile.

sycon polyp ascon leucon

The _______ body form of a cnidarian is typically dioecious and free swimming sycon polyp ascon medusa

Members of the cnidarian class ______ are called “true jellyfish”.

Cubozoa Anthozoa Hydrozoa Scyphozoa

Contractile vacuoles in freshwater protozoans function to remove excess water remove the nitrogen wastes capture prey increase the efficiency movement

An amphibians ability to breathe through it’s skin is called buccal pump buccopharyngeal pumping cutaneous respiration ram ventilation

In the order Anura, fertilization of egg and sperm occurs internally externally inside the females cloaca in the ground

Amphibians secrete mucus/fluids on their bodies for toxins for defense helping males stick to the females during reproduction keeping skin moist all of the above

Amphibians have a third eyelid called the tympanic membranes eustachian tubes nictitating membranes contact lens

The word Amphibian means living a double life water lizard jelly egg layer having a double chin

Sponges can have a skeleton made of ostia or oscula oscula or spicules spicules or sponging

The flagellated cells that line the canals of the sponge are called choanocytes pinacocytes porocytes ostia

Of the 3 different types of body or canal designs in sponges, which is the most complex?

ascon leucon sycon escon