Nonvertebrate Chordate, Fishes and Amphibians Study Guide Maxwell Spring 2013
1st, 4th, 6th period test on Friday May 3rd, 2013
8TH TEST ON THURSDAY MAY 2ND, 2013
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4 True of False
16 Multiple Choice
4 Completion
2 Short Answer
5 Using Science Skills
1. In chordates, what is the long supporting rod that runs through the body?
2. What chordate characteristic exists as paired structures?
3. A vertebrate is any chordate that has a backbone
4. Classify animals in categories of with or without a spinal cord.
5. Identify the two groups of nonvertebrate chordates
6. Prove the difference between lancelets and tunicates is that adult lancelets.
7. In fishes, what structure is most important for obtaining oxygen from water?
8. What If a fish’s olfactory bulbs were damaged, the fish probably not would be unable to do what?
9. Identify the organ that adjusts the buoyancy of many bony fishes.
10. List the modern jawless fishes.
11. State the characteristic of amphibians.
12. What structure is missing from many salamanders that live on land?
13. Be able to identify the chamber of an amphibian’s heart that contains blood with the highest oxygen
concentration.
14. Why do eggs of amphibians can dry out easily?
15. What are a frog’s tympanic membranes useful for?
16. Identify the following amphibians: caecilian, frog, salamander, and toad
17. What are the individual segments of the backbone called?
18. Know the difference between an adult tunicate, and an adult lancelet.
19. Identify the basic characteristic of fishes
20. If a vertebrate is aquatic as a larva and terrestrial as an adult it is a _________.
21. List the four characteristics of chordates.
22. Identify the three main groups of fishes
23. Be able to label figure 30-1 on page 767 in Prentice Hall biology book.
24. Compare and contrast larva and adult tunicates
25. Analyze mobility of tunicates during different life stages.
26. In chordates, the nerve cord runs along the dorsal part of the body.
27. Most amphibians live in water as larvae.
28. The intestine of a frog becomes shorter when the frog develops from a tadpole into an adult.
29. Larval frogs and toads lose their tails when becoming an adult.
Nonvertebrate Chordate, Fishes and Amphibians Study Guide Maxwell Spring 2013