Fish/Vertebrates

What are vertebrates?

• Animals with a backbone
• Animals without a backbone
• Fish
• All types of animals

My body is cold, am covered in scales, use gills to breathe under water, and I lay eggs.  What am I?

• Fish
• Mammal
• Reptile
• Amphibian

Fish take in oxygen through their ________.

• fins.
• gills.
• scales.
• vertebrae.

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Which class of vertebrates has the most species?

• Jawless Fish
• Bony Fish
• Birds
• Mammals 

The main groups of vertebrates are _______________________.

• mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish.
• Mammals, marsupials, monotremes and birds
• mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians
• mammals, reptiles and amphibians

Another name for a backbone is _______________________.

• invertebrae
• humerus
• femur
• vertebrae

Is a shark a mammal, reptile or fish? 

• reptile
• fish
• mammal
• None of these

At some point in their lives, these animals all have a tail, notocord, hollow nerve cord, and pharyngeal pouches

• horseshoe crabs

• ants

• bees

• Chordates

This structure, found in the developing embryos of chordates, eventually becomes gills:

• tail

• notocord

• hollow nerve cord

• pharyngeal pouches

This structure, found in developing chordates, eventually becomes the spinal cord:

• tail

• notocord

• hollow nerve cord

• pharyngeal pouches