Adaptations, habitats, and facts about jawless fish
Across
- 5. Jawless fish are _________, which means that their internal temperature depends on the temperature of their environment
- 7. Lampreys have a ______-cup like mouth that allows them to feed on the blood of their prey
- 13. Burrowing habit adaptation
- 16. Hagfish locate their food by _____
- 18. Lampreys are an invasive species in the Great Lakes
- 20. Lampreys are found in cool, fresh, and coastal waters of all continents except _____
- 21. Hagfish live near the ________ (bottom of the ocean)
Down
- 1. As well as jaws and paired fins, jawless fish also lack a ______
- 2. Hagfish use this as a defense against predators as it clogs their gills
- 3. A support rod that runs along the back of the fish
- 4. Hagfish eat ____ animals
- 6. Hagfish have a skull made out of this
- 8. Lampreys feed on the _____ of their prey
- 9. Lampreys have this while hagfish do not
- 10. Hagfish can go _____ without food
- 11. Hagfish skin is often marketed as ___ skin
- 12. Lampreys first entered Lake Erie through the _______ Canal in 1921
- 14. Lampreys possess _____ (#) pairs of external gills
- 15. Lampreys are native to the ______ ocean
- 17. Instead of a jaw, lampreys have a round oral ____
- 19. Are parasites