Zoology Final Exam Review
Birds
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Diversity
List all possible examples for this group.
How have birds adapted their body for flight?
How do birds breathe?
Fishes
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Diversity
What types of things can sharks detect using sensory organs?
List all possible examples for this group.
What is the function of the swim bladder?
Give ALL the types of parental care in fish.
What is the lateral line system?
Mammals
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Diversity
# of species
List all possible examples for this group.
Brain portion and function (cerebrum, cerebellum, thalamus, spinal cord)
Describe the function of EACH teeth type: canine, incisor, molar
How does the digestive tract of herbivores, omnivores and carnivores differ/compare?
Reptiles
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Diversity
List all possible examples for this group.
Describe a reptiles circulatory system.
How do reptiles excrete: wastes, salt?
Describe a reptiles respiratory system.
Amphibians
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Diversity
Describe amphibians circulatory system.
List all possible examples for this group.
What is the nictitating membrane? Function of it?
Describe the life cycle of an amphibian.
Arthropods (Terrestrial and Aquatic)
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How do insects sense their environment? What do they use to hear? See?
Describe spiders (leg #, eyes, sensory organs, segment #)
List all possible examples for this group. (of EACH group)
What organs do spiders/insects have for water retention?
What is the cephalothorax?
How many body segments do crustaceans have?
How do insects breathe?
What do mandibles (in BOTH aquatic and terrestrial arthropods) do?
Describe chelicerae.
Echinoderms
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List all possible examples for this group.
Diversity
What is radial symmetry? Give an example of an animal with it.
Where do echinoderms live?
Draw a starfish. Label: ring canal, tube foot, ampulla, stomach, madreporite
Mollusks
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List all possible examples for this group.
Diversity
What does the mantle do in bivalve mollusks?
Which mollusks have a shell? Which do not?
Describe a mollusks sensory organs.
What adaptation allows for movement in mollusks? (Choose from: Legs, foot, radula, OR shell)
Worms (Segmented/Flat)
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How do earthworms breathe?
List all possible examples for this group. (of EACH group)
What are the basic characteristics of the Phylum Annelida?
Diversity
Earthworm drawing (know the basic organs
What are setae?
Cnidarians
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List all possible examples for this group.
How many body forms are their in the life cycle of a Cnidarian?
What is the body symmetry of cnidarians?
Sponges/Porifera
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List all possible examples for this group.
Choanocytes/collar cell function
Draw/Label a collar cell
Describe spongin and spicules.
Why are sponges in the Phylum Porifera?
What is an osculum? Where is it located?
General Info
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Anterior/Posterior
Ventral/Dorsal
Describe an invertebrate.
Define: Sessile, coelom, ectotherm, exoskeleton, endotherm
Classification
(Be able to match an EXAMPLE and ONE/TWO UNIQUE characteristic with each of the
classes/orders/groups listed below!)
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Agnatha
Anuran
Arachnida
Caecilian
Carnivora
Caudata
Cerripeds
Cetacea
Chilopods
Chondrichthyes
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Copepoda
Crocodilian
Decopod
Diplopoda
Hominids
Insecta
Insectivora
Isopod
Lagomorpha
Merostomata
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Neognathae
Ostieichthyes
Paleognathae
Perissodactyla
Proboscidea
Rhynchocephalia
Rodent
Squamata
Testudines