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23 Cards in this Set
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Continental Drift |
the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time. |
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Ridge Formation |
uplifting of earths crust caused by continental drift. |
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Subduction |
the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate. |
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Zygopohyses |
process of interlocking vertebrae for modification of aquatic animals on land, allowing for the spine to act as a suspension bridge. |
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Lagena |
bone in ear, enlarged throughout evolution. |
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Endothermy |
physiological generation and regulation of body temperature by metabolic means : the property or state of being warm-blooded. |
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Ectothermy |
body temperature is controlled by their surroundings. |
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Cloaca |
a common cavity at the end of the digestive tract for the release of both excretory and genital products in vertebrates. |
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Panderichthys |
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Eusthenopteron |
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Acanthostega |
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Ichyostega |
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Tiktaalik |
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Temnospondyl |
Diverse order of small to giant tetrapods. |
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Lepospondyl |
Tetrapods |
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Synapsids |
"mammal-like reptiles" |
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Sauropsid |
first secondarilly aquatic amniotes. |
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Anaspid |
extinct, jawless vertebrates. |
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Diaspid |
Amniote tetrapods with two holes in the side of their skull. |
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Amniotic egg |
embryo develops inside an emniote |
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Allantois |
cavity within amniotic egg that's purpose is for waste. |
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Chorion |
the outermost membrane surrounding an embryo |
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Amnion |
the innermost membrane that encloses the embryo |
