Fish Vocabulary

_________ are what fish, amphibians, and some other animals use to breathe in water.

• Vertebrates

• Ectothermic

• Fins

• Gills

I am a thin soft flexible sheet or layer especially of a plant or animal part (as a cell, tissue, or organ).

• Cartilage

• Scales

• Swim Bladder

• Membrane

I am a fish that has a skeleton made of __________, not bone, which is a rigid, soft tissue.

• Membrane

• Scales

• Streamlined

• Cartilage

I am cold-blooded; that means I can't generate my own body heat. What am I?

• Swim Bladder

• Ectothermic

• Vertebrate

• Streamlined

I am the air bladder of a fish.

• Ectothermic

• Swim Bladder

• Gills

• Membrane

Capable of floating. What am I?

• Vertebrate

• Scales

• Swim Bladder

• Buoyant

I am an external membranous process of an aquatic animal used in propelling or moving or guiding the body.

• Fins

• Vertebrate

• Scales

• Membrane

Fish have ___________ bodies which help them cut quickly through water.

• Membrane

• Scales

• Streamlined

• Swim bladder

These are small rigid plates that grow out of the skin of a fish.

• Gills

• Scales

• Fins

• Cartilage

Fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, including humans, are all _____________.

• Vertebrates

• Scales

• Membrane

• Ecothermic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2