Chapter 31 Overview Of Vertebrates

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This quiz includes chapters 31-1 story of vertebrate evolution, 31-2 Challenge of Obtaining Oxygen, 31-3 Evolution of a Better Heart, 31-4 Challenge of Retaining Water, and 31-5 Reproduction and Development

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1.

What is cartilage?
2.

What is a swim bladder?
3.

What do endothermic animlas have to do?
4.

What is the placenta?
5.

Amphibians evolved from:
- A.
  
  Fish
- B.
  
  Reptiles
- C.
  
  Echinoderms
- D.
  
  Protostomes
6.

Amphibians gave rise to:
- A.
  
  Fish
- B.
  
  Reptiles
- C.
  
  Birds
- D.
  
  Plankton
7.

Reptiles are ---blank--- (type of habitat)
8.

---blank--- were the first vertebrates
- A.
  
  Birds
- B.
  
  Reptiles
- C.
  
  Amphibians
- D.
  
  Jawless fishes
9.

Acanthodians
- A.
  
  Had strong biting jaws
- B.
  
  Had jaws with jagged bony edges that serves as teeth
- C.
  
  Had jaws
- D.
  
  Bodies were streamlined and flattened sideways
- E.
  
  Small bodies covered with protective spines
- F.
  
  Small bodies covered with protective aveoli
- G.
  
  Paired fins
- H.
  
  One fin
10.

Placoderms:
- A.
  
  Massive heads armored with bony plates
- B.
  
  Extinct
- C.
  
  Still living
- D.
  
  Small heads armored with bony plates
11.

In Hybodus, the skeleton is composed of ---blank---.
12.

Bony fishes compensate for their heavier skeletons with a ---blank---.
13.

The first verterbrates able to live on land were ---blank---
14.

Amphibians evolved from:
- A.
  
  Ventral-finned fishes
- B.
  
  Hybodus
- C.
  
  Lobe-finned fishes
- D.
  
  Cartela-finned fishes
15.

Name some of the things that made the invasion of land by vertebrates successful
- A.
  
  Lungs
- B.
  
  Watertight eggs
- C.
  
  Bladder
- D.
  
  Eggs don't need to be fertilized
- E.
  
  Better heart
- F.
  
  Legs
16.

Reptiles' legs were positioned to support the body more effectively.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
17.

---blank--- made reptiles the first completely terrestrial vertebrates.
18.

Living reptiles are
- A.
  
  Endothermic
- B.
  
  Both
- C.
  
  Ectothermic
19.

When dinosaurs disappeared, their ecological roles as the large land vertebrates were taken over by ---blank---
20.

Dinosaurs evolved from birds
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
21.

Monotremes lay shelled eggs and have a shoulder structure similar to that of early reptiles.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
22.

All very large land animals are: