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- They live in water, such as the water you drink and bathe in.
- Their skin is permeable so they absorb the toxic things in the water around them, if they are suffering your water may be bad.

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- Mate in water
- External Fertilization
- Lay eggs by water
- Soft gel eggs (Have no hard covering around them)

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Amphibians were the first vertebrates to live on land plus they can live in both water and land.

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Causes of Population Decline in Amphibians

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Causes of Population Decline in Amphibians

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- Habitat Destruction
- Disease (Chytridomycosis)
- Global Climate Change
- Chemical Poisons

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Ectotherms are animals that are dependent on external sources for body heat. Another word for this is cold blooded.

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- Four Limbs
- Soft Skin
- Ectothermic
- Breathe through gills and lungs
- Three chambered heart with two atria and one ventricle
- Go through metamorphosis
- Eggs without shells

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Amphibians, unlike reptiles, have a sort of double life. They are born in eggs without shells over or in water, they live their tadpole stage in the water and when they become adults they move onto land. Amphi- means dual -Bian means lifeform, they were named this because of their history of living partly on land and partly in water.

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Metamorphosis is a profound change that happens in stages from the point where an amphibian is just birthed from his egg to his adult phase.