WorksheetsChondrichthyes: Cartilaginous Fish
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 14mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What type of fish are lampreys?
a)
Agnatha
b)
Chondrichthyes
c)
Osteichthyes
2.
Where do fish filter oxygen out of water?
a)
Lungs
b)
Gills
c)
Mouth
d)
Skin
3.
What structure do sharks use to detect electrical currents?
a)
Cuadal fins
b)
Rostral area
c)
Organ of Lorenzini
d)
Lateral line
4.
Which group of fish have paired appendages?
a)
Agnatha
b)
Chondrichthyes
5.
Which group of fish have jaws?
a)
Agnatha
b)
Chondrichthyes
6.
Which group of fish include sharks, rays and skates?
a)
Agnatha
b)
Chondrichthyes
7.
Which group of fish are the jawless fish?
a)
Agnatha
b)
Chondricthyes
8.
Which group of fish do not have scales?
a)
Agnatha
b)
Chondricthyes
9.
Which group of fish do not have paired fins?
a)
Agnatha
b)
Chondrichthyes
10.
This organ allows sharks to sense vibrations in the water.
a)
Nare
b)
Lateral Line
c)
Operculum
d)
Vent
11.
Which Phylum do the sharks, skates, rays and bony fish belong to?
a)
Agnatha
b)
Echinodiea
c)
Osteichthyes
d)
Chordate
12.
What is a shark's adaptation to maintain neutral buoyancy?
a)
Fluid in the ears
b)
Gas filled bladder
c)
Large oily liver
d)
Nictitating membrane
13.
What are the electroreceptors in the head of sharks, skates, and rays capable of detecting weak electrical signals produced by muscular activity in other creatures?
a)
Operculum
b)
Chondrichthyes
c)
Echolocation
d)
Organ of Lorenzini
14.
Since fish live underwater, they do not require oxygen.
a)
True
b)
False
15.
Lampreys and hagfish are
a)
Jawless fish
b)
Cartilaginous fish
c)
Bony fish
16.
Which is not a group of fish?
a)
Jawless
b)
Cartilaginous
c)
Bony
d)
Shelled
17.
Fish are...
a)
Vertebrates
b)
Invertebrates
18.
Which of the jawless fish is a parasite?
a)
hagfish
b)
lamprey
c)
shark
d)
perch
19.
Cartilaginous fish that have flattened bodies with paired winglike fins are ____
a)
sharks and perch
b)
rays and skates
c)
rays and sharks
d)
lampreys and hagfish
20.
Fins on the top of the fish that keep the fish upright are ___
a)
dorsal
b)
caudal
c)
pelvic
d)
pectoral
21.
What is the major difference between skates and rays?
a)
Skates have a spine in their tails.
b)
Rays have a spine in their tails.
c)
Skates have large pectoral fins.
d)
Rays have small pectoral fins.
22.
The fish pictured is a
a)
shark
b)
coelocanth
c)
teleost
d)
hagfish
23.
The fish pictured is a
a)
lamprey
b)
skate
c)
lungfish
d)
hagfish
24.
What is structure 10 pointing to?
a)
dorsal fin
b)
caudal fin
c)
pelvic fin
d)
pectoral fin
25.
Fish with bodies of cartilage and scales.
a)
chondrichthyes
b)
osteichthyes
c)
agnatha
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