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Phylum Chordata web quest – This will replace your lowest grade.
Links have been provided but you will need to search for additional information. Do not cut and paste.
http://www.bumblebee.org/invertebrates/CHORDATA.htm
1. Where does the name Chordata come from?
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2. There are three subphyla in the Chordate phyla these are:
a. ________________________________________
b. ________________________________________
c. ________________________________________
2. Name the four characteristics of ALL chordata
a. ________________________________________
b. ________________________________________
c. ________________________________________
d. ________________________________________
3. What makes the Urochordates and Cephalochordates different from the Vertebrata?
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4. Briefly describe the Urochordates.
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5. Briefly describe the Cephalodchordates.
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SubPhylum Vertebrata http://www.earthlife.net/inverts/vertebrata.html
6. What main characteristic is shared by all vertebrates?
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7. Compare and contrast chordates and vertebrates:
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8. How do vertebrates differ in the way in which they control body temperature?
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9. What kind of body symmetry do all vertebrates have?
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10. List the seven classes of vertebrates and give an EXAMPLE of an organism in each.
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Fish - Super Class Agnatha
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/education/GroupsFish/FishGroups.htm
1. What two types of fish belong in the Superclass Agnatha?
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2. What two structures do they lack?
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3. When did these fish first appear on the Geologic Time Scale? _____________________________
4. Are they endothermic or ectothermic? _____________________________
5. What type of body covering do they have?
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6. How do they breathe?
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7. Describe the endoskeleton of a hagfish?
8. Describe the endoskeleton of a lamprey
9. What types of consumers are hagfish and how do they obtain their food?
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10. What types of consumers are Lamprey and how do they obtain their food?
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11. Do these fish have side fins or any other fins?
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12. Do they have scales? _____________, if so describe them
13. Why are lamprey considered dangerous to the fishing industry?
14. List some examples of agnatha.
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Class Chrondrichthyes
15. Give 3 examples of Chrondricthyes
16. When did these fish first appear on the Geologic Time line?
17. Name 2 extinct species of these fish?
18. Describe their endoskeleton?
19. Are they endothermic or ectothermic?
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20. What type of body covering do they have? Describe
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21. Describe how these fish breath?
22. Do they have a swim bladder, if not how do they maintain buoyancy?
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23. What types of consumers are they?
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24. Describe the reproduction of these fish? (oviparous, ooviparous or viviparous)
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25. Do these fish have side fins?
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26. Do they have bones? _____________ If not, what do they have instead?
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27. How can you distinguish between a skate and a ray
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Class Osteichthyes
28. What are the functions for the following Fish organs:
a. Lateral line:
b. Swim bladder
c. Operculum:
29. What does the name Osteicthyes mean?
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30. Are they endothermic or ectothermic?
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31. What type of body covering do they have? Describe it?
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32. Internal or external fertilization?
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33. How do they breathe?
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34. Describe the reproduction of these fish? (oviparous, ooviparous or viviparous)
35. What types of consumers are they?
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36. Describe the heart of a fish?______________________________________
37. For the fish below identify all of the structures
1.
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10. _____________________________
2. _________________________________
11. _____________________________
3. ________________________________
12. _____________________________
4. __________________________________
13. _____________________________
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5. __________________________________
14. _____________________________
6. __________________________________
15. _____________________________
7. __________________________________
16. _____________________________
8. __________________________________
17. _____________________________
9. __________________________________
18. _____________________________
38. Describe how oxygen enters and travels through the bodies of these fish?
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39. List 3 freshwater fish species found in Georgia? Use correct scientific name.
40. What are lungfish?
Class Amphibia
41. What were the first tetrapod?
42. When did the first tetrapod appear on the Geologic time scale?
43. Name the 3 orders of amphibians and give an example of each
a. ________________________________________
b. ________________________________________
c. ________________________________________
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090513221510AAKvMoV
44. Where does the name amphibian come from?
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http://www.kidscom.com/cgi-bin/Animalgame/animal.pl
45. What traits do amphibians have?
a. _________________________________________________________________________
b. _________________________________________________________________________
c. _________________________________________________________________________
46. Are Amphibians endothermic or ectothermic?
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47. What type of body covering do they have? Describe it?
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48. Internal or external fertilization?
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49. How do they breathe?
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50. Describe the reproduction of these fish? (oviparous, ooviparous or viviparous)
51. What types of consumers are they?
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52. Describe the heart and blood circulation of an amphibian?
53. Describe how the young are born. (eggs/no eggs? water/no water? shell/no shell? other)
54. Explain metamorphosis in amphibians.
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55. How do they breathe (be sure to include information from all life phases)?
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56. What types of consumers are they?
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57. Describe 3 physical attributes of ALL members of this class?
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58. How can you distinguish between a toad and a frog? ________________________________________
59. Why are frogs considered indicator speices? _______________________________________
Class Reptilia
60. When did the first reptile appear on the Geologic time scale?
61. Name the 4 orders of reptiles and give an example of each
a. ________________________________________
b. ________________________________________
c. ________________________________________
d. ________________________________________
62. What traits do reptiles have?
a. _________________________________________________________________________
b. _________________________________________________________________________
c. _________________________________________________________________________
63. What traits do amphibians and reptiles share?
a. _________________________________________________________________________
b. _________________________________________________________________________
c. _________________________________________________________________________
64. Are they endothermic or ectothermic? ______________________________________
65. What are 3 characteristics that allow reptiles independence from living in the water?
66. What type of body covering do they have? Describe it?
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67. Internal or external fertilization?
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68. How do they breathe?
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69. Describe the reproduction of these fish? (oviparous, ooviparous or viviparous)
70. What types of consumers are they?
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71. Describe the heart and blood circulation of an amphibian?
72. Describe how the young are born. (eggs/no eggs? water/no water? shell/no shell? other)
73. Explain metamorphosis in amphibians.
74. How do they breathe (be sure to include information from all life phases)?
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75. What types of consumers are they?
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76. Describe 3 physical attributes of ALL members of this class?
77. What are the four groups of
dinosaurs?____________________________________________________
Class Aves
78. What are these?
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79. Are they endothermic or ectothermic?
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80. What type of body covering do they have?
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81. Internal or external fertilization?
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82. Describe how the young are born. (eggs/no eggs? water/no water? shell/no shell? other)
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83. How does a bird egg differ from a reptile’s egg
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84. How do they breathe? ____________________________________________
85. Describe the heart of a bird
86. Draw and label the structure of a feather?
87. Describe the bones of birds?
88. Describe special adaptations of Birds of Prey?
89. Describe special adaptations of Wading Birds?
90. Why are migratory song birds protected?
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91. other attributes:
92. Describe some other physical attributes of ALL members of this class?
93. List some examples of these.
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Class Mammalia
1. How do they breathe? http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Mammalia.html
2. Click on "Mammals"
3. What three characteristics do mammals have that no other animals has?
a. ________________________________________
b. ________________________________________
c. ________________________________________
4. Mammal hair is made of: ________________________________________
5. Name four functions of mammal hair:
a. ________________________________________
b. ________________________________________
c. ________________________________________
d. ________________________________________
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6. Describe the heart of a mammal.
7. What is diphyodonty?
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8. The Class Mammalia contains _____________ orders and about _____________ species.
9. Note that Animal Diversity Web divides mammals in the three subclasses. What are the subclasses and
what kind of animal goes into each?
a. ________________________________________
b. ________________________________________
c. ________________________________________
Marsupials
10. American Maruspials belong to what order? ________________________________________
11. What is the largest order of marsupials? ________________________________________
12. Kangaroo mothers are often taking care of three offspring in various stages of development. How does
the mother take care of three babies with only one pouch?
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Placentals
13. Animals in the Order Insectivora eat ______________________
14. Which sense is used the least in insectivores ________________________________________
15. What is a distinguishing feature of the elephant shrew? _____________________
16. Go to the order Chiroptera and find the family that false vampire bats are in.
17. What is the smallest primate? ________________________________________
18. What is the difference between new world monkeys and old world monkeys?
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19. Under Order Rodentia, find the Family Hystricidae. What animals are in this group: _______________
20. Cetaceans are divided into two suborders:
a. Mysticeti which are _________________________ and the Odontoceti
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21. What do baleen whales feed on: _________________________
22. Name three animals in the order Delphinidae:
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23. What is the common name for the following cetaceans' scientific name. (They are all in the Family
Delphinidae)
Sousa teuszii _____________________________
Cephalorhynchus eutropia _____________________________
Lagenorhynchus acutus _____________________________
Orcinus orca _____________________________
Lagenorhynchus obscurus _____________________________
24. Under order Carnivora, the Family Felidae (for cats) is divided into 3 subfamilies.
25. List the subfamilies and the animals found in each.
a. _________________________________________________________
b. _________________________________________________________
c. _________________________________________________________
26. What family do you find polar bears in? ___________ What genus? ________________________
27. Artiodactyls contain about ________ species divided into ________ families
28. With the Order Artiodactyla, give an example of a member of each of the following families:
Camelidae ______________________________
Giraffidae ___________________________________
Hippopotamidae _________________________________
Cervidae _________________________________
Bovidae _________________________________
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Practice Test Chordates: Circle the letter of the best answer.
1.
Which of the following is a chordate characteristic?
a. ventral, hollow nerve cord
b. bony endoskeleton
c. post-anal tail
d. backbone
2.
In addition to the four characteristics that distinguish chordates from other phyla, chordates also have
_____.
a. a ventral, hollow nerve cord
b. radial symmetry
c. protostome development
d. a true body cavity (coelom)
*3.
Which of the following chordates is described as an invertebrate, fishlike animal, with cilia in its pharynx
to help it filter feed?
a. lancelets
b. sea squirts
c. craniate
d. hagfish
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Which of the following enables you to identify the lamprey species that are parasitic?
a. sucker-like mouths lined with teeth
b. complex eyes
c. fleshy fins
d. bony skeletons
e. jaws with rows of razor-sharp teeth
5.
The range of amphibian habitats on land is limited by ____________.
a. eggs protected by a jellylike coating
b. use of their skin as a supplementary respiratory organ
c. external fertilization
d. eggs protected by a jellylike coating, use of their skin as a supplementary respiratory organ, and
external fertilization
6.
Reptiles are well adapted to living in drier habitats because of their __________.
a. hollow bones
b. production of a shelled amniotic egg
c. two chambered heart
d. moist skin used as a supplemental respiratory organ
7.
The group of terrestrial vertebrates that may be the first indicators of environmental pollution is the
a. amphibians
b. bony fishes
c. lancelets
d. reptiles
8.
All chordates share which of the following characteristics?_________________.
a. bilateral symmetry
b. fully lined body cavity
c. a dorsal, hollow nerve cord
d. pharyngeal gill slits
e. bilateral symmetry, a fully lined body cavity, a dorsal, hollow nerve cord, and pharyngeal gill slits
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Using the following choices, tell me which category each animal belongs to in questions #51-63. Each
choice may be used once, more than once, or not at all.
A. Phylum Chordata, Class Agnatha
B. Phylum Chordata, Class Chondrichthyes
C. Phylum Chordata, Class Osteichthyes
D. Phylum Chordata, Class Amphibia
E. Phylum Chordata, Class Reptilia
AB. Phylum Chordata, Class Mammalia
AC. Phylum Chordata, invertebrates
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10. Salamanders:
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12. Eagle
13. Skates:
14. Tunicates:
15. Crocodiles:
16. Lampreys:
17. Toads:
18. Lancelets:
19.
The only chordate feature present in adult humans is the _________________..
a. post-anal tail
b. dorsal, hollow nerve cord
c. pharyngeal gill slits
d. notochord
20.
The invertebrate chordates differ from vertebrate chordates due to the lack of ____________.
a. pharyngeal gill slits
b. a post-anal tail
c. a backbone
d. a dorsal, hollow nerve cord
21.
Species of which of the following animal phyla are deuterostomes?
a. Annelida
b. Arthropoda
c. Chordata
d. Echinodermata
e. Arthropoda, Chordata, and Echinodermata
f. both Chordata and Echinodermata
22.
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The ability of birds to fly is facilitated by their _________________________.
a. four-chambered heart
b. lung supplemented by air sacs
c. external development of a shelled egg
d. hollow bones
e. four-chambered heart, lungs supplemented by air sacs, external development in a shelled egg, and
hollow bones
The high body temperature of birds and mammals is due to ____________.
a. heat generated by a high metabolism
b. the presence of sweat, scent, and sebaceous glands
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c. the fur that insolates them
d. behaviors such as basking in the sun or seeking shade
e. the exchange of gases and nutrients via the placenta
24.
What defines a mammal, or distinguishes it from other vertebrates?
a. its hairless exterior
b. its primitive, simple brain
c. milk-producing glands
d. most mammals complete the great majority of their development outside of the uterus
25. A long period of uterine development and gas, nutrient, and waste exchange between the mother and
embryo
is characteristic of __________________.
a. all mammals
b. birds
c. marsupials
d. placental animals
e. monotremes
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a.
b.
c.
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Class Chondrichthyes includes _____________.
whales
lampreys
all fish
sharks
*27. Parasitic lampreys have _______________.
a. sucker-like mouths lined with teeth
b. a backbone
c. ventral solid nerve cord
d. sucker-like mouths lined with teeth and a backbone
28.
Reptiles are better adapted to land dwelling than are amphibians because of their _____________.
a. two-chambered heart
b. moist skin used as a respiratory structure
c. well-developed lungs
d. embryo’s uterine development
29.
Which of the following is not a characteristic of all chordates at some point in life?
a. pharyngeal gill slits
b. hollow nerve cord
c. backbone
d. a notochord
*30.
Which of the following adaptations protects hagfish from predators?
a. scales that are covered in barbs, preventing predators from touching them
b. scales so thick that predators cannot bite through them
c. skin that secretes a lethal poison
d. secretions of large amounts of slime, allowing hagfish to slip through the grasp of predators
31.
How do sharks differ from other fish such as salmon, tuna, or goldfish?
a. Sharks respire with gills.
b. Sharks do not have a skeleton of bone.
c. Sharks have a two-chambered heart.
d. Sharks swim with fins.
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32.
While snorkeling on a coral reef in the Caribbean, you see a brightly colored fish with bony spines in its
fins. It has a swim bladder for floating. The fish is a:
a. Ray-finned fish
b. Lungfish
c. Shark
d. Lamprey
33.
Why must amphibians stay tied to watery environments?
a. Amphibians have a three-chambered heart that requires more water than more advance hearts do.
b. Amphibian skin is used for respiration and must remain moist.
c. Amphibian eggs form in hard, leathery shells that must be kept moist.
d. In adult amphibians, gills are used for respiration and must remain moist.
34.
Which of the following is NOT a reptilian adaptation to life on land?
a. leathery skin
b. internal fertilization
c. a four-chambered heart
d. improved efficiency of lungs
35.
Mammals have all the following characteristics except ____________.
a. mammary glands
b. hairy bodies
c. high metabolic rates
d. legs designed for running
e. radula
36.
Humans belong to which category?
a. Phylum Chordata, Class Chondrichthyes
b. Phylum Chordata, Clas Osteichthyes
c. Phylum Chordata, Class Reptilia
d. Phylum Chordata, Class Mammalia
e. Phylum Chordata, Class Amphibia
37.
The notochord develops into the ________________ in vertebrate chordates.
a. backbone
b. spinal chord
c. dorsal hollow nerve chord
d. brain
38.
Lancelets have all of the following except _____________.
a. gill slits
b. a notochord
c. dorsal nerve cord
d. post anal tail.
e. a backbone
39.
Tunicates _________.
a. are sessile
b. are filter-feeders
c. larvae have all the diagnostic features of chordates
d. are invertebrates
e. all of the above
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