| A | B |
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| Pittman-Robertson Act of 1937 | provided funds for wildlife study, restoration and education |
| Dingell-Johnson Act of 1951 | provided funds for fish management |
| fish | cold-blooded vertebrates usually with scales, fins, gills and live in water |
| NC's state saltwater fish | channel bass (red drum) |
| sedimentation | NC #1 water pollutant |
| anglers | sport fishermen |
| eutrophication | results in fish kills; began by excess nutrients |
| amphibians | eat more insects than do birds |
| exothermic | having a body temperature derived from the animal's environment ("cold-blooded") |
| herpetology | the scientific study of amphibians and reptiles |
| NC's state reptile | Eastern box turtle |
| amphibians | vertebrates with smooth, moist skin; lacking scales; four legs; toes with no claws; exothermic; and a double lifestyle (part in water and part on land) |
| reptiles | vertebrates with dry, glandless, horny scaled skin; exothermic; most have four legs; 5 toes with claws; leathery eggs |
| ex. amphibians | frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, mudpuppies, sirens, waterdogs, hellbender, and amphibiuma |
| ex. reptiles | snakes and a few legless lizards; alligators; turtles |
| # species of snakes in NC | 37 |
| ovoviviparous | (NOT like most reptiles) a few carry their eggs inside their bodies until the eggs hatch and have their young alive |
| amnion | surrounds the egg yolk; secretes fluid that supports and protects the embryo |
| allantois | is a respiratory surface and stores metabolic wates |
| serosa | encloses the embryo and other membranes |
| herptologists | a person who studies amphibians and reptiles |
| carapace | upper shell (like that of a turtle or crayfish) |
| plastron | lower shell of a turtle |
| scutes | enlarged scales on a reptile (also called "plate" or "shield") |
| endothermic | having a body temperature derived from the animal's own metabolism ("warm-blooded") |
| NC's state bird | cardinal |
| birds | vertebrates; warm-blooded; most have feathers; bill with no teeth; light bones and wings; most fly; hatch young from eggs |
| raptor | bird of prey |
| talons | the sharp, grasping claws of raptors |
| flightless birds | penguins, ostriches, kiwi |
| smaller wading birds | sandpipers, plovers, snipe, rails, woodcock, and killdeer |
| long-legged waders | herons, cranes, egrets, ibises and spoonbills |
| aerialists | gulls, terns, pelicans, shearwaters, frigates... |
| swimmers | (ducks & duck-like): swans, geese, coots, loons, and grebes |
| "puddle ducks" | dabblers found in shallow water good walkers (usu. feed by tipping into the river rather than dive) |
| "diving ducks" | divers usu. found in deeper water |
| flyway | migration routes of ducks/birds |
| four flyways | Atlantic, Mississippi, Central, and Pacific |
