Class Reptilia
Name at least two animals that are under this heading.
What are turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, and crocodiles? ALSO dinosaurs!
What animal is this? (show pic)
What is a tuatara?
This reptile has no eyelids and is deaf.
What is a snake?
This animal has blunt snout and when they close their mouths, all the teeth fit inside.
What is an alligator?
Either endothermic or ectothermic
What is endothermic?
They have this many chambers in their heart.
What are three?
Where is the third eye of the tuatara?
What is the top of its head?
This is the specialized scales on the belly of a snake.
What are the scutes?
This makes the crocodile or the alligator a stealthy predator.
Has this many heart chambers
What is four?
Most reptiles are covered with this.
What are tough dry scales?
Tautaras live where?
Where is New Zealand?
The largest lizard.
What is the Komodo Dragon?
Laying eggs and covering them with mounds of rotting vegetation.
What is oviparous?
Laying an amniotic egg that is covered in a what containing shell.
What is lime-containing?
Scales serve what main purpose?
What is insulate?
What does the name Tuatara mean?
What is "spine bearer?"
This little fella is a tree-dwelling lizard that can change colors in response to stimuli. What kind of lizard is it? what is the purpose of this?
What is the Chameleon?
What is camouflage?
Members of this order are distinguished bu the large shells that they carry on their backs.
What is Order Testudines?
An organism that is internally warmed by a heat-generating metabolic process.
What is endotherm?
Albumin (white part of the egg) in the eggs serves what purpose?
How old are tautaras when they typically start reproducing?
What is 20 years old?
Name two types of poison that snakes can have.
What are nerve poisons (or neurotoxins) and what are poisons that attack the red blood cells (or hemotoxin)?
Members of the order Testudines use this to snap their food into bits.
What is a beak?
A bird uses this for gathering its food.
What is the bill?