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BIRDS
Chapters 44
Membrane sac in an amniotic egg
____________________
Allantois
that exchanges gases and stores nitrogen waste
The proteins and water stored in
an amniotic egg
albumen
____________________
Yolk sac
Membrane sac in an amniotic egg
__________________
that surrounds the fat-rich food supply
Membrane that surrounds the embryo
and the fluid in which it floats ______________________________
amnion
Membrane that surrounds all
the other membranes
____________________________
chorion
Tiny air sac that increases surface area
in the lungs
alveoli
____________________
Voice box where the trachea branches
syrinx
____________________
Dividing wall that separates the
ventricle into 2 chambers
Fused collar bones that stabilize
the wings during flight
septum
__________________
furcula
__________________
Fused vertebrae that support
pygostyle
the tail during flight ____________________
Large breastbone where the
pectoralis muscle attaches ____________________
sternum
Type of reproduction in which the
egg is surrounded by a shell and laid
Oviparous
outside the body to hatch
__________________
Ornithologist
Scientist who studies birds ___________________________
Endocrine gland that regulates
Heart rate, blood pressure, &
metabolism
thyroid
____________________
Tubules that carry urine from the
ureters
kidney to the cloaca
____________________
Small tubules that carry sperm from
the testes to the cloaca
__________________
Vas deferens
Tubes which add the albumen & shell to the eggs
as they are carried from ovary to cloaca
___________________
oviducts
Joining of an egg & sperm outside
External fertilization
the female’s body
____________________
Kind of development in which
offspring are born/hatch looking
like their parents only smaller Direct
____________________
development
Kind of circulatory system in which
blood is contained inside vessels
closed
__________________
Organism that has a notochord,
pharyngeal pouches, a post anal tail,
and a dorsal nerve cord
______________________________
Chordate
vertebrate
Organism with a backbone ____________________
Organism whose blastopore
deuterostome
becomes its anus ____________________
mesentery
Thin membrane in the coelom that____________________
connects and holds the internal organs
together
Columbiformes
Order of birds that _____________________
includes pigeons and doves
Maintaining the correct
osmoregulation
balance of water and ____________________
ions in the body
cranium
Covering made of bone that ____________________
protects the brain; also called skull
Nerve cord surrounded by bone
or cartilage; also called a
Spinal cord
_____________________
Vertebral column
Joining of an egg & sperm inside
the female’s body
____________________
Internal
fertilization
Enlargement of the esophagus that
stores and moistens food waiting
to be digested
1st part of the stomach in a bird
where digestion begins
crop
____________________
proventriculus
__________________
A protein found in the scaly skin of ______________________
reptiles and also in bird feathers, &
human hair & fingernails
keratin
Baby birds that are hatched blind,
naked, and helpless ____________________
altricial
2nd part of the stomach which
gizzard
contains rocks for grinding food __________________
Eardrum
Tympanic
membrane
__________________
AVES
CLASS for birds __________________
Opening at back of throat for
gullet
food to enter esophagus ____________________
ileum
Coiled portion of small intestine ____________________
between duodenum and large intestine
Bile storage organ
Lower jaw
Gall bladder
__________________
mandible
______________________________
maxilla
Upper jaw ______________________________
Small pouches at the junction of the
Small and large intestine that contain
bacteria to help digest plants ________________
Colic caeca
Baby birds that can run , swim, and
precocial
fly soon after they hatch _________________
Outside body covering in an animal
__________________
integument
This kind of body organ works automatically
autonomic
without thinking about it ______________
An egg with four membranes and a
protective shell found in reptiles, ____________________
BIRDS, and a few mammals
Amniotic
In animals the body plan where the
left and right sides are mirror images Bilateral
of each other
____________________
symmetry
This part smoothes the flow of blood
Conus arteriosus
leaving the ventricle
__________________
These small thin walled blood vessels
connect arteries and veins and are the
place where gases, wastes, & nutrients
are exchanged
__________________
capillaries
arteries
Blood vessels that carry blood ________________________
away from the heart
Membrane that covers and protects
Nictitating membrane
a frog’s eye while swimming ______________________
Area in a fish’s brain that receives and
processes info from visual, auditory,
Optic lobes
and lateral line systems
_______________________________
Posterior part of the brain that controls
balance and muscle coordination
________________________
cerebellum
Blood vessels that carry blood back
to the heart
veins
_________________
cere
Fleshy area near the beak of a bird _________________
Posterior part of the brain that integrates
info from the other brain parts and where
higher brain functions like memory, learning,
reasoning, and problem solving occur _____________
cerebrum
Collecting chamber that receives blood
returning to the heart from the body
before it enters the atrium __________________________
Sinus venosus
Part of the brain that controls the
autonomic internal organs __________________________
Medulla oblongata
and relays sensory info from body
The concentration of nervous and
sensory organs in the anterior end
of an animal
_____________________________
cephalization
Small fingerlike extensions inside the
intestine that increase surface area
villi
for greater absorption of nutrients _______________
First section of intestine _______________________
duodenum
nearest stomach
The energy molecule is stored
in the liver ________________________
glycogen
This substance is made by the pancreas
and causes cells to release glucose into
glucagon
the bloodstream.
__________________
(Be careful! It sounds like the answer above.
Don’t get these 2 confused!)
Gland that controls heart rate,
Blood pressure, and metabolism
thyroid
__________________
Multipurpose exit space before
cloaca
the vent
____________________
Body temperature that is
dependent on their environment
“cold-blooded”
ectothermic
__________________
Organ that makes, stores, and
spleen
recycles red blood cells ______________________
Organ that makes eggs
ovary
____________________
Organ that makes sperm
testes
____________________
Exit opening in animals with
vent
a cloaca
__________________
Opening at back of mouth to
glottis
the lungs
____________________
nares
Scientific name for “nostrils” ____________________
olfactory
Sense that deals with smell____________________
Circulation that carries blood
pulmonary
from heart to lungs and back to heart__________________
Urine storage organ
Urinary bladder
_________________________
Circulation that carries blood from heart
systemic
to body organs and back to heart ____________________
Ringed tube that carries air from
trachea
Glottis to bronchi ____________________
Smaller ringed tubes that carry air
bronchi
from trachea into lungs____________________
Largest vein returning blood
Vena cava
to heart
__________________
Largest artery leaving heart
Aorta
________________________
Organ that absorbs water and
Large intestine
concentrates digestive waste ____________________
Extensions on the lungs of a bird
that store air but don’t exchange gases_________________
Air sacs
Small finger-like extensions lining
the small intestine to increase
____________________
villi
Surface area for more nutrient absorption
alveoli
Small air sacs inside the lungs that__________________
Increase surface area for more gas exchange
Featherless area of skin on the abdomen
of birds used to keep the eggs warm
Brood patch
______________________
Nutritious milk-like fluid made in the crop
of pigeons and doves
____________________
Crop milk