Marine Science Ch 10

Marine Science Ch 10

Multiple Choice

vertebrae are always made of bone

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

what percentage of fish are marine?

• 23%

• 45%

• 58%

• 72%

Multiple Choice

What Phylum are fish a part of?

• Animalia

• Agnatha

• Chordata

• Osteichthyes

Multiple Choice

Which of these is not a class of fish?

• Agnatha/Jawless

• Condrichthyes/Cartilaginous

• Osteichthyes/Bony

• Osteonthyes/Boneless

Multiple Choice

Lampreys and hagfish lack

• teeth

• heads

• mouths

• jaws

Multiple Choice

which group is jawless fish called?

• cartolichthyes

• agnatha

• chondrichthyes

• osteichthyes

Multiple Choice

How many gill pairs are present?

• None

• 7

• 24

• 5

Multiple Choice

what do you think the lamprey is?

• herbivore

• carnivore

• parasite

• omnivore

Multiple Choice

Which fish class would a lamprey be classified in?

• Chondrichthyes

• Agnatha

• Osteichthyes

• Amphibia

Multiple Choice

The skeletons of sharks is made of...

• Bone
• Cartilage

Multiple Choice

Cartilaginous fishes that include sharks, skates, and rays

• Superclass Agnatha

• Class Osteichthyes

• Class Chondrichthyes

• Superclass Gnathostomata

Multiple Choice

Cartilage is different from bone because

• It's more flexible

• It's lighter

• Both answers are correct

Multiple Choice

A goldfish propels itself forward with its

• caudal fin.

• pelvic fins.

• pectoral fins.

• dorsal fins.

Multiple Choice

How long have sharks been on the Earth?

• 65 million years

• 50 thousand years

• 455 million years

• 372 million year

Multiple Choice

What is the unusual thing a bull shark can do?

• survive in fresh water

• survive out of water

• eat seaweed

• talk

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This shark is the most long lived vertabrate, well over 500 years.

• Iceland

• Greenland

• Great white

• megladon

Multiple Choice

How big was the average length of the Megalodon shark?

• 50 feet

• 21 feet

• 70 feet

• 85 feet

Multiple Choice

Which species of shark is the most endangered on the planet?

• Blue sharks

• Great White sharks

• Lantern Sharks

• Angel sharks

Multiple Choice

What is the special electroreceptor organs near the shark's nose called?

• Ampullae of Lorenzini

• electro fields

• placoid scales

• nose hairs

Multiple Choice

Which shark species' fetuses employ siblicide as a survival of the fittest technique in the womb?

• Bull

• Great White

• Goblin

• Sand Tiger

Multiple Choice

The eggs hatch inside the mother's body

• viviparous

• oviparous

• ovoviviparous

Multiple Choice

These animals develop inside the mother's womb

• viviparous

• ovoviviparous

• oviparous

Multiple Choice

Which shark is the fastest in the ocean?

• Great White shark

• Mako shark

• Blue shark

• Tiger shark

Multiple Choice

What species of shark is the oldest known species?

• Blue shark

• Goblin shark

• Cookie Cutter shark

• Bull shark

Multiple Choice

which fins are extended into 'wings'

• pectoral

• dorsal

• ventral

• pelvic

Multiple Select

all rays are one of which two of these types of reproducers

• ovoviviparous

• Oviparous

• viviparous

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which always lays egg cases?

• rays

• skates

Multiple Choice

Heterocercal Tail:

• having the upper lobe larger than the lower with the vertebral column extending into the upper lobe

• having the lower lobe larger than the upper with the vertebral column extending into the lower lobe

Rat Fish

Multiple Choice

Which of the following fish would NOT belong to Class Chondrichthyes?

• Shark

• Trout

• Skate

• Ray

Multiple Choice

The fish class name "Osteichthyes" means:

• Jawless

• Cartilage fish

• Bony fish

• Spiny

Multiple Choice

Coloration scheme in which the dorsal surface of organism is dark while the ventral surface of an organism is light

• counter shading

• lateral lines

• chromatic adaptation

• reduced silhouette

• cryptic coloration

Multiple Choice

Some fish show mimicry for coloration patterns, they copy other fish's patterns. Which type of pattern would be most useful to mimic?

• countershading

• disruptive coloration

• warning coloration/aposematic

• cryptic coloration

Multiple Choice

A Flounder's body is....

• Streamlined

• Laterally compressed

• Round

• Laterally Flattened

Tunas bodies are streamlined. Sea moths are flattened. Flounders are laterally flattened. Freshwater eels are eel-shaped.  Gunnels are ribbon-shaped. Snipe eels are thread-like. Seahorses have elongated vertical planes. Trunkfish are triangular. Porcupine fish are round

Multiple Choice

All fish swim the same way, moving just their caudal fin

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

How do these fish swim?

• anguilliform

• carangiform

• subcarangiform

• thunniform

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what are the muscles used for swimming called

• myomers muscles

• caudial muscles

• terminal muscles

• propelling muscles

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sharks don't have a swim bladder to use for buoyancy but they have a liver with lots of

• gas

• oils

• water

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where to fish get their oxygen from?

• the air

• gas bubbles

• the water

• their food

Multiple Choice

the concentration of oxygen in the water is always _____ than the amount of oxygen in the blood

• greater

• less than

Multiple Choice

Name the three parts of a gill.

• filament, lamellae, gill arch

• filament, lamellae, operculum

• surface area, filaments, gill

Multiple Choice

you can tell a fish's diet based on its jaw structure

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

What would a fish with this type of mouth feed on?

• nibbles on algae or coral

• eats organisms on the sea floor

• whatever it can catch from above

• it is a predator that hunts other fish

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What would a fish with this type of mouth feed on?

• nibbles on algae or coral

• eats organisms on the sea floor

• whatever it can catch from above

• it is a predator that hunts other fish

Both have mouths, gonads, kidneys, livers, stomachs, and intestines. Cartilaginous fishes have a spiral valves, cloacas, and rectal glands. Bony fishes have urinary bladders and anuses.

Multiple Choice

which has the longer more coiled intestines?

• herbivorous fish

• carnivorous fish

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deoxygenated blood moves ________ to water flow

• parallel

• opposite

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what is osmoregulation?

• Control of water and salt in the body

• Control of blood pressure in the body

• Control of blood glucose in the body

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In a solution, salt is considered the _______.

• solvent
• solute
• solution

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If the dots represent sugar what direction will the water flow?

• Into the cell

• Out of the cell

• Both equally (equilibrium)

Multiple Choice

which fish would pee more?

• freshwater

• saltwater

Multiple Choice

Fish olfactory sacs help fish

• Balance

• See

• Smell

• Detect electric impulses

Multiple Choice

All fish see in color

• true

• false

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what cells make up the lateral line system of bony fish?

• nematocysts

• neuromasts

• Ampullae of Lorenzini

• Aristotle's lantern

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neuromasts detect _________ where Ampullae of Lorenzini detect__________

• vibrations, electrical charges

• electrical charges, vibrations

• chemical signals, vibrations

• electrical charges, chemical signals

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when a bunch of fish swim together as a group, going the same speed, it's called a

• family

• school

• group

• pack

traveling patterns: swim in the same linear direction. When feeding on plankton: together but in all different directions. Encirclement of a predators: swim in a circle around the predator.  Streaming fish swim non-linearly but same direction.

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fish are territorial

• yes

• no

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there are species that travel from saltwater to freshwater to spawn, but no species that travel from freshwater to saltwater to spawn

• true

• false

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eels can swim across oceans

• true

• false

Fill in the Blank

releasing sperm and eggs into the water column for fertilization

Multiple Choice

sex reversal can happen in fish, when a male becomes a female or vice versa

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

which lays eggs

• Viviparous

• Oviparous

• Ovoviviparous

Multiple Choice

internal fertilization (occuring mostly with cartilaginous fishes) what is the male part used for copulation called

• graspers

• claspers

• swimmerets

• proboscis

Multiple Choice

fish are the most abundant vertebrate

• true

• false

Poll

can a fish be petty?

• yes

• no