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Use internet resources/notes to answer the following:
1. What main characteristic is shared by all vertebrates?
2. Compare and contrast chordates and vertebrates:
3. How do vertebrates differ in the way in which they control body temperature?
4. What kind of body symmetry do all vertebrates have?
5. List the seven classes of vertebrates.
Class Agnatha
1. What are these?
2. Are they endothermic or ectothermic?
3. What type of body covering do they have?
4. How do they breathe?
5. What types of consumers are they?
6. How do they eat?
7. Do these fish have side fins?
8. Do they have scales?
9. Do they have bones? If not, what do they have instead?
10. List some examples of agnatha.
Class Chrondrichthyes
1. What are these?
2. Are they endothermic or ectothermic?
3. What type of body covering do they have?
4. How do they breathe?
5. What types of consumers are they?
6. Do these fish have side fins?
7. Do they have bones? If not, what do they have instead?
6. List some examples of these.
Class Osteichthyes
1. What are these?
2. Are they endothermic or ectothermic?
3. What type of body covering do they have?
4. Internal or external fertilization?
5. How do they breathe?
6. What types of consumers are they?
7. Describe some other physical attributes of ALL members of this class?
8. List some examples of these.
Class Amphibia
1. Are they endothermic or ectothermic?
2. What type of body covering do they have?
3. Internal or external fertilization?
4. Describe how the young are born. (eggs/no eggs? water/no water? shell/no shell? other)
5. How do they breathe (be sure to include information from all life phases)?
6. What types of consumers are they?
7. Describe some other physical attributes of ALL members of this class?
8. What are the three main groups of these?
Class Reptilia
1. Are they endothermic or ectothermic?
2. What type of body covering do they have?
3. Internal or external fertilization?
4. Describe how the young are born. (eggs/no eggs? water/no water? shell/no shell? other)
5. How do they breathe?
6. What types of consumers are they?
7. Describe some other physical attributes of ALL members of this class?
8. What are the four main groups of these?
Class Aves
1. What are these?
2. Are they endothermic or ectothermic?
3. What type of body covering do they have?
4. Internal or external fertilizationn?
5. Describe how the young are born. (eggs/no eggs? water/no water? shell/no shell? other)
6. How do they breathe?
7. What types of consumers are they?
8. Describe some other physical attributes of ALL members of this class?
9. List some examples of these.
Class Mammalia
1. What are these?
2. Are they endothermic or ectothermic?
3. What type of body covering do they have?
4. Internal or external fertilization?
5. How do they breathe?
6. What types of consumers are they?
7. Describe some other physical attributes of ALL members of this class?
8. How are the three groups of mammals classified?
placental mammals:
9. Give some examples of these:
10. Describe how the young develop.
marsupials:
11. Give some examples of these:
12. Describe how the young develop.
monotremes:
13. Give some examples of these:
14. Describe how the young develop.