Reptiles
The number of heart chambers most reptiles contain.
What is three?
Fastest snake movement
What is sidewinding movement?
Design of a snake allowing it to swallow meals whole.
What are double-hinged jaws?
Nerve poison and blood poison.
What is neurotoxin and hemotoxin.
Tail fin used as a fish's propeller and rudder.
What is the caudal fin?
The most numerous reptiles.
What are lizards?
What is lateral undulation?
The largest group of living snakes.
What are colubrids?
Fastest snake in the world.
What is the black mamba?
W-shaped bands of fish muscle.
What are myomeres?
Reptiles are coldblooded animals that are classified by a term which means their body temperature adjusts to the environments around them.
What are poikilotherms?
Snake movement where the snake alternately stretches and shortens segments of his body to creep forward in a straight line.
What is rectilinear movement?
Snakes with a sensory depression found on the side of their head to sense radiation.
What is a pit viper?
Two categories of fish.
Gill structure used to filter debris from the water.
What are gill rakers?
Process many reptiles undergo several times a year, leaving their skin behind.
What is molting?
Snake movement used across smooth surfaces or climbing trees.
What is concertina movement?
Pythons belong to this snake family.
What are boids?
Special pigment cells found in amphibians and fish.
What are chromatophores?
System of nerve endings covering a fish's body.
What is a lateral line?
Reproduction method of some reptiles which means to "bring forth alive from eggs."
What is ovoviviparous?
Bone used by a snake for hearing.
What is a quadrate bone?
Snakes with immovable fangs in the front of the upper jaw.
What are elapids?
Scientists who study fish.
What are icthyologists?
What is a grunion?