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Kingdom Anamalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Class Reptilia |
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| Reptiles have what kind of eggs? |
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| Do reptiles have internal or external fertilization? |
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| A reptiles skin consists of this? |
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| If a reptile has legs, how many do they have? |
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| What do reptile feet have that most amphibian feet don't have? |
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| Describe a reptile's lungs. |
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| Are reptiles warm blooded or cold blooded? |
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| What characteristics of reptiles have helped them succeed on land? |
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| Scales, internal fertilization, amniote egg (shells). |
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| Describe a reptile's egg shell. |
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| porous, prevents rapid water loss |
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| lines egg shell used in gas exchange |
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| develops from embryo; carries on embryonic respiration and excretion |
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| What is an example of Order Rhynchoephalia? |
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| In what country is the Tuatara found |
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| The Tuatara looks like what? |
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| A Tuatara has a special eye. What is it's name and function? |
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| Parietal eye. third eye covered by skin; senses sun’s radiation AND shadows from animal flying overhead |
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| Third eye covered by skin; senses sun’s radiation AND shadows from animal flying overhead |
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| Example of Order Chelonia. |
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| Sea turtles have what kind of feet? |
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| Are sea turtles herbivores, carnivores or omnivores? |
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| omnivores, they eat both animals and plants |
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| Sea turtles have soft shells. What benefit does this provide? |
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| It makes them streamlined. |
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| Terrapin turtles have what kind of feet? |
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| Symetrical plates covering a boney under layer |
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| What is another name for a land turtle? |
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| Describe the neck and legs of a tortise |
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| If a tortise can not pull it's neck and legs into it's shell it is usually what? |
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| How many teeth does a tortise have? |
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| Describe a tortise's sense of hearing |
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| It is poor. It has a Tympanic membrane |
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| Describe a tortise's sense of sight |
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| Is a tortise's sense of smell good or bad? |
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| it has a good sense of smell |
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| What determines the sex of tortise egs? |
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| Low temperatures cause tortise eggs to be what sex, male or female? |
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| How does temperature determine sex in tortise eggs? |
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| An enzyme that converts testosterone, the male hormone, into estrogen, the female hormone, is very active at higher temperatures. |
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| Example of order Crocodilian |
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| Alligators and crocodile. |
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| Are crocidiles and alligators herbivores, carnivores or omnivores? |
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| A reptile's heart has how many chambers? |
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| 4. But some say 3 since the wall dividing the ventricles is only a partial wall. |
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| Why are a crocodile's or alligator's eyes and nostrils raised? |
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| So the rest of the body can be underwater. |
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| What prevents water from entering an alligator's or crocodile's lungs when their mouth is open? |
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| A valve at the back of the mouth closes. |
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| Which is more agressive, an alligator or a crocodile? |
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| Which is more terrestial, an alligator or a crocodile? |
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| Which is more aquatic, an alligator or a crocodile? |
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| Which has a head that is triangular shaped, an alligator or a crocodile? |
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| Which has a head that is rectangular shaped, an alligator or a crocodile? |
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| Which has teeth that can be seen when the mouth is closed, an alligator or a crocodile? |
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| Which has definite vocalizations, an alligator or a crocodile? |
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| Are alligators and crocodiles oviparous or viviparous |
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| Low temperatures cause crocodile and alligator eggs to be what sex, male or female? |
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| Which guard the nest and care for their young, alligators, crocodiles, or both? |
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| Example of Order Squamata |
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| What is unique about a true chameleon's tongue? |
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| it is longer than their body |
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| What is unique about an iguana's color? |
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| It changes in response to light, temperature, and mood |
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| True chameleon's live where? |
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| A skink's body is what shape? |
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| What is unique about a skink's tail? |
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| It falls off when grabbed |
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| Are a skink's legs strong or weak? |
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| What is the only poisonous lizard in the US? |
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| What is the only poisonous lizard in the Mexico? |
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| How does a gila monster inject it's venom? |
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| Gila monsters have enlarged, grooved teeth in their lower jaw. When they bite, their powerful jaws chew the venom in through capillary action along the grooves in these teeth. |
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| What is the most primative lizard (despite talking in TV commercials)? |
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| Why does a gecko have a vertical pupil? |
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| What is the largest monitor lizard? |
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| All lizards have what kind of eyelids? |
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| All lizards except the gecko see this. |
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| Are a lizards ear internal or external? |
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| What kind of climates do lizards live in? |
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| How do lizards conserve water? |
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| by excreting uric acid (white paste) |
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| Snakes evolved from what animal? |
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| What is the most numerous reptile, turtles, lizards or snakes? |
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| The top of a snake is covered in what? |
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| The bottom of a snake is covered in what? |
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| A snakes a scales and scutes prevent what? |
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| How many vertabrae does a snake have? |
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| How many ribs are attached to each snake vertabrae? |
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| What is unique about a snake's lungs? |
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| 1 well developed right lung; left is smaller in size |
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| How many chambers does a snake's heart have? |
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| 4. But some say 3 since the wall dividing the ventricles is only a partial wall. |
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| How are a snakes internal organs arranged differently than most animals? |
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| All organs long and thin and lie alternating, not side by side |
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| What is lateral undulation? |
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| crawling quickly or swimming, s-shaped motion, most common |
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| What is rectilinear locomotion? |
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| straight movement, no lateral movement, used by large snakes |
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| Snake movemnet where the snake twists into loops and touches the ground at 2-3 points; used by desert dwelling snakes or on slippery surfaces |
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| What is concertina locomotion? |
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| Snake movement - pulling up the body into bends and then straightening out the body forward, used in crawling through tunnels or narrow passages |
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| What is concertina locomotion? |
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| Snake movement - pulling up the body into bends and then straightening out the body forward, used in crawling through tunnels or narrow passages |
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| Is a snake's ear internal or external? |
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| What organ is located on the roof of a snake's mouth? |
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| How does a snake use it's tongue to smell? |
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| Tongue picks up scent particles and inserts into Jacobson’s organ |
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| How does a snake smell in "stero"? |
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| Tongue is forked shaped to sense the direction of the smells |
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| A snake's cornea is permanently protected by what? |
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| spectacle (a clear scale) |
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| Do snakes have good or bad vision? |
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| Most have poor vision with exception of the arboreal (tree dwelling) snakes |
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| Are snakes herbivores, carnivores or omnivores? |
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| Snakes kill their prey in 2 ways. What are they? |
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| Do snakes chew their food? |
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| No, they swallow it whole. |
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| How do snakes swallow their prey? |
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| Jaw comes unhinged, elastic ligaments stretch, the glottis moves forward (so can breathe while swallowing) |
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| Missing this bone allows snakes to swallow prey whole. |
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| To digest whole animals, snakes have what? |
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| There are two types of poisonous snakes. What are they? |
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| Rattlesnakes, copperheads, adder |
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| Describe pit viper fangs. |
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| Long thin fangs – fold up when mouth is closed |
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| Permanently erect fangs (short) |
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| Examples of elapsid snakes. |
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| Sea snakes belong to this family. |
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| The african boomslang and twig snakes have rear fangs and belong to this family. |
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| What does neurotoxin affect? |
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| What does hemotoxin affect? |
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| Poisonous snakes contain two types of venom in different amounts of each. What are they? |
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| neurotoxins and hemotoxins |
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| retain eggs in body, born alive |
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| primitive placenta forms; receives nourishment from mother (rare in snakes) |
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| Are snakes oviparous, ovoviviparous or viviparous? |
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