VERTEBRATES REVIEW

1. Explain the groups of vertebrates that exist, and explain 3 of their main characteristics.
2. Describe the fish skin.
3. What’s the difference between bony and cartilaginous fish? What is the swim bladder for?
4. Are whales fish? Why? Explain the characteristics that allows you to know it.
5. What’s a metamorphosis?
6. What type of breathing do amphibians have?
7. Fill the table.
Temperature
Group Environment Skin Limbs Reproduction Breathing Subgroups
regulation
Fish

Amphibians

Reptiles

Birds

Mammals

8. What’s homeotherm? What’s poikilotherm?

9. What’s the difference between urodela and anura?
10. How is the fecundation in fish and amphibians? Why?
11. What’s the hard scales and the egg’s shell of reptiles for?
12. Some reptiles leave behind their tails while an attack. Why?
13. Say two features of turtles, different from other reptiles.
14. What’s the developed sternum in flying birds for?
15. What are the feathers for?
16. How do viviparous animals feed an embryo inside the mother?
17. Why are monotremes mammals, although some have beak instead of lips?
18. Say three characteristics of human beings that make us different from other primates.
19. How do whales or turtles breathe under water?