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| All amphibians undergo what process? |
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| Are young amphibians herbivores or carnivores? |
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| A young amphibian has a heart with this many chambers. |
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| Young amphibians are _____ like. |
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| Are adult amphibians herbivores or carnivores? |
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| Where do most young amphibians live in water or on land? |
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| An adult amphibian has a heart with this many chambers. |
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| Are amphibians warm blooded or cold blooded? |
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| exothermic (poikilothermic) means |
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| Describe an amphibians skin. |
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| Describe an amphibians feet. |
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| Webbed feet without claws (most) |
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| Example of amphibian order Gymnophiona (aka: Apoda) |
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| Example of amphibian order Urodela(aka: Caudata) |
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| Salamanders belong to what order? |
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| Caecilians belong to what order? |
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| Example of amphibian order Salientia(aka: Anura) |
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| Frogs and Toads belong to what order? |
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| Order Apoda are found in what climate? |
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| Order Apoda look like large _____ |
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| What type of eyes do order Apoda have? |
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| Order Apoda hearing is not good, they rely on ________ located between the eyes and nostrils. |
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| Order Apoda have an excellent sense of ________ |
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| Where do order Apoda live? |
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| Order Apoda are ovipourus, true or false? |
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| Order Apoda lay eggs where? |
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| Describe the body of order Caudata. |
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| Long slender body with tail |
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| Aposematic coloration means? |
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| Salamanders and newts can not hear, instead they do what? |
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| They sense vibration on the ground |
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| Salamanders and newts are found in what climate? |
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| Temperate climates, tropics of Central and South America |
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| Salamanders and newts are often confused with what type of animals? |
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| How do Salamanders and newts differ from lizards? |
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| they undergo metamorphosis, have no scales, no claws, and four toes on foot |
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| fire animal (crawled out of wood brought into house and stacked near fire) |
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| The Axoltol differs from a normal salamander how? |
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| Does not undergo metamorphosis. when mature, it still has some larval characteristics such as gills. |
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| A juvenile newt is called a _______ |
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| An eft uses what for respiration? |
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| Newts and efts are poisonous, true or false? |
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| False. Some red efts are poisonous but loose there poison skin when they become adults. |
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| What color eft can be poisonous? |
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| Why are newts easier to hold than salamanders? |
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| because their skin is rougher and less moist |
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| is salamander and newt fertilization is internal or external? |
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| The male of salamanders and newts deposits packets of sperm and the female body picks it up in her ________ |
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| Where salamanders and newtslay their eggs? |
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| Why are salamander and newt eggs covered by a jelly like material? |
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| to prevent them from drying out |
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| Land salamanders bypass the larval stage, this is called? |
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| direct development. The larval stage occurs in the egg and the salamander hatches as a small version of an adult |
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| The amphibian order with the most species is? |
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| may retain larval form (gills) when sexually mature |
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| Where do order Anura live? |
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| Found in most habitats except polar and subarctic zones |
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| Do toads have dry or wet skin? |
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| Do frogs have dry or wet skin? |
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| Toads are nocturnal, true or false? |
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| Toads have this kind of gland in their skin. |
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| Poison (not effective on snakes) |
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| Toads have several teeth, true or false. |
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| False, toads have no teeth |
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| baby toad, also called a polliwog |
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| Frogs hibernate, true or false. |
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| When frogs hibernate, how do they breath? |
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| during high heat, toads bury themselves in mud or deep water |
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| The largest toad, the west african toad, eats what? |
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| The largest american frog |
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| Describe the skin of toads and frogs. |
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| Thin, smooth, moist (frog). Used in respiration. |
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| Pigment cells in toads and frogs skin. |
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| How many types of pigment cells do toads and frogs have? |
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| What does the skin of toads and frogs have to prevent dryness? |
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| What kind of receptors does the skin of toads and frogs have? |
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| Nostrils. Thers is an olfactory membrane lining in nasal cavity in toads and frogs. |
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| The external eardrum in toads and frogs is called what? |
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| Tympanum, transmits vibrations. |
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| Connects pharynx to middle ear in toads and frogs. |
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| True or false, toads and frogs see in black an white? |
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| False, they see in color. |
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| What is the dominate sense in toads and frogs? |
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| Do toads and frogs have taste buds? |
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| What is a nictitating membrane? |
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| Protective covering over eye for underwater vision (frogs). |
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| Frogs and toads have 3 kind of vertebrae, what are they? |
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Cervical – neck.
Sacral – help support hind legs.
Urostyle – fused coccyx (triangular bone at the bas of the spinal column “tailbone”) |
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| Frogs and toads, front legs, breast bone, collar bone, shoulder blades |
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| Frogs and toads, hip bones (fused), hind legs |
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| The olfactory part of the forebrain of frogs and toads is used for what? |
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| The optic lobes part of the midbrain of frogs and toads is used for what? |
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| vision and complex activities |
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| The cerebellum part of the hindbrain of frogs and toads is used for what? |
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| The medulla oblongata part of the hindbrain of frogs and toads is used for what? |
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| auditory reflexes, respiratory, swallowing, vasomotor control (nerves and muscles that cause the blood vessels to constrict or dilate) |
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| Are frogs and toads herbivores or carnivores? |
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| Do frogs and toads chew their food? |
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| No, they swallow it whole. |
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| Order Anura have teeth where? |
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Teeth in upper jaw only
Vomerine = 2 large teeth
Maxillary = small, on rim of upper jaw |
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| valve between stomach and intestine to prevent early passage of food out of stomach in frogs and toads |
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| (frogs and toads) Part of the small intestine, pancreas and bile secrete into this |
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| (frogs and toads) coiled portion of the small intestine |
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| (frogs and toads) (large intestine) stores undigested food, absorbs water |
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| (frogs and toads) bottom portion of colon, receives reproductive products, kidney products, can take in water to absorb from environment. |
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| stores sugar in the form of glycogen; produces bile which is stored in the gall bladder |
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| (frogs and toads) makes digestive enzymes |
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| (frogs and toads) excrete nitrogenous waste; maintain salt and water balance |
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| How do frogs and toads get rid of carbon dioxide |
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| In frogs and toads, where is urine stored? |
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| What are the 3 wyas frogs and toads obtain oxygen? |
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Skin (cutaneous breathing) – at rest
Mouth (buccal breathing) – when active
Lungs (pulmonary breathing) – when active |
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| (frogs and toads) opening to trachea |
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| What does the male frog or toad use their vocal chords for? |
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| Where are the vocal chords located in frogs and toads? |
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| What is the pathway of air in frogs and toads. |
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| Nares, pharynx, glottis (opening to trachea), trachea, bronchi, alveoli (air sacs) |
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| How many chambers are in the heart of frogs and toads? |
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| What are the parts of the female reproductive system in frogs and toads? |
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| Ovary, coiled oviduct (transport egg from ovary to cloaca), Ovisac – thin walled sac that stores eggs, Eggs have a jelly-like coating and leave body through cloaca |
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| What are the parts of the male reproductive system in frogs and toads? |
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| Oval testes on anterior ventral side of kidney. Sperm ducts – attach testes to kidney |
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| Is fertilization in frogs and toads internal or external? |
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| External. Male clamps onto females body from behind with forearms (called amplexus). Male releases sperm as female releases eggs |
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| What family of order Anura do most common frogs belong to? |
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| What family of order Anura do most frogs belong to? |
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| What family of order Anura do true toads belong to? |
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| 2 large teeth in the roof of a frogs mouth that are used to capture and hold prey. |
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| Small teeth on the rim of upper jaw of a frog that function in chewing, grinding, and crushing prey |
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