Chordates, Fish & Amphibians Review
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Invertebrate chordates: examples
4 trademarks of chordates & their significance
Agnatha: examples, descriptions, feeding patterns
Chondrichthyes: examples & characteristics, sharks vs. skates & rays
Great White facts: role & importance in ecosystem, feeding habits &
preferences
Sharks: 6 sense organs, locations & their functions, reproduction, examples of nonaggressive sharks, type of scales, biggest shark on Earth
Osteichthyes: examples, 2 main types, swim bladder function, why they are slippery,
functions of operculum, how tom tell a cutthroat from a rainbow
Amphibia: orders, examples of orders, respiration, 3 types of skin glands & their
functions, how frogs differ from toads, 4 ways frogs protect themselves
from predators, reproductive patterns in different orders, unique
brooding strategies & which frog uses each , stages, respiration
structures & feeding patterns of frog life cycle, structure used for frog
vocalizations, type of circulation & # of heart chambers in adult frogs vs.
larvae, definition of sentinel species
Reptiles: orders, examples of orders, # of heart chambers in most vs. crocs &
gators, carpace vs. plastron, what determines sex of turtle hatchlings,
significance of kinetic skull, how snakes breathe while swallowing prey,
most direct ancestor of snakes, Jacobsen’s vs. pit organ, 2 types of
snake venom & how they work, snake ears? how snakes detect
vibrations, parental care in Crocodilia