AMPHIBIANS🐸

BODY STRUCTURE/BUILD

• Has lungs to breathe on land
• Has hind and fore legs to jump and move around on land
• Have an backbone or spine

SKIN

• Breathe through their skin
• Bright skin color helps them trick prey into thinking their poisonous
• Some have fluids in their skin that ooze out poison or foul-tasting fluids when they are attacked

SENSES

• Their eyes can see on land
• Small circles covered with membrane behind the eyes is how amphibians hear
• Use their smells to mark their territory

BREATHING

• Through their skin in water and lungs on land

CIRCULATORY CIRCUITS

• 3-chambered heart
• Ventricle: pumping chamber; muscular
• Atria: recieving chamber; relatively non-muscular

EXCRETORY

• Kidneys filter waste out of blood
• Urine travel tubes are called ureters
• Next urine travels to cloaca

HABITAT DESCRIPTION AND REASON

• Although frogs live on land their habitat must be near swamps, ponds or in a damp place.
• This is because they will die if their skin dries out

DIGESTIVE ORGANS LIST AND FUNCTION

• Kidney: blood-purifying organ
• Small intestine: part of the digestive tract between the stomach and the large intestine.
• Large intestine: part of the digestive tract between the small intestine and the cloaca
• Cloaca: orifice shared by the urinary, genital and intestinal tracts of a frog

METAMORPHOSIS DIAGRAM