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FINAL EXAM REVIEW GUIDE- VERTEBRATES
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1. What are the 3 classes of fish and examples of each?
2. What are claspers?
3. Describe the difference in floatation of bony fish and cartilaginous fish.
4. Draw a Venn diagram to compare and contrast bony fish and cartilaginous fish. The more you put, the more it will help you on the test!!
5. Describe catadromous and anadromous. Cite examples of fish for each one.
6. Draw a fish and label all fins and their functions.
7. Which fins are paired?
8. How does the shape of a fish determine where it lives in the water column? Give examples.
9. What is countercirculation and why is it important in fish?
10. What is countershading.
11. What is meant by transsexual fish? Describe this process.
12. What do fish use to stay evenly spaced in schools? Explain.
13. How are lampreys problematic to salmon?
14. Describe osmosis and why it is important to fish.
15. Describe the characteristics of tetrapods.
16. Describe the different types of marine reptiles discussed in class. Include all important characteristics and how they give birth.
17. Classify a penguin kingdomà class.
18. Where can you find penguins?
19. Define endotherm and ectotherm. Give examples of each.
20. Describe the dangers to sea turtles. What can they do to avoid predators?
21. What is a TED?
22. How is sex determined in sea turtles?
23. How many species of sea turtles are there? How many are endangered?
24. Distinguish between shorebirds and seabirds. Give examples of each.
25. What is DDT and when was it made illegal? Why?
26. Describe the red pouch in pelicans.
27. Describe the snowy plover including its status.
28. What are the functions of feathers? (not just flight)
29. Classify a baleen whale. Kingdomàsuborder (don’t forget subphylum). What are some examples?
30. Classify a toothed whale. Kingdomàsuborder (don’t forget subphylum). What are some examples?
31. What suggests there are land ancestors of whales?
32. What is echolocation and what marine mammals use this?
33. Where are polar bears mainly found?
34. Describe sirenians in detail.
35. How/ what do gray whales eat?
36. How big are blue whales?
37. Describe the different types of orca pods in detail.
38. Describe the migration pattern of most whales.
39. Describe whale behaviors and the reasons they do them.
40. Describe what each type of marine mammal uses for warmth.
41. Describe characteristics of dolphins.
42. What human impacts have had negative affects on marine mammals? Describe in detail!!!!
43. What is being done to counteract these human behaviors? And what can YOU do?