Vertebrate Fishes

What group of vertebrates are Salmon and Sea horse?

• Aves

• Cyclostome

• amphibians

• Pisces

The exoskeleton in bony fishes is

• dermal plates

• Cycloid Scales

• Ptenoid scales

• spines

Hard plate that covers and protects the gills is the ____

• operculum

• fins

• placoid scales

• swim bladder

A shark's skeleton is

• Bony

• Cartilaginous

• both bone and cartilage

• calcareous

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What kind of fish / sea creature is it?

• Stingray

• shark

• sailfish

• puffer fish

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The swim bladder is used by bony fish to....

• breath.

• locate prey

• change its buoyancy.

• avoid prey.

What Phylum are fish a part of?

• Pisces

• Agnatha

• Chordata

• Osteichthyes

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Fish hearts have _____ chambers

• 2

• 4

• 6

• 1

This structure is used to detect vibrations in the water.

• olfactory sacs

• scales

• lateral line

• Fins

The most ancestral of the fish do not have jaws. They are in the group _________________________.

• Chondrichthyes

• Osteichthyes

• Pisces

• Agnatha

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