Reptile Basics
Reptiles are warm-blooded or cold-blooded?
What is cold-blooded?
A turtle carries this on its back.
What is a shell?
Snakes smell with their ______.
What are tongues?
This fast reptile is known for running on water.
What is the basilisk lizard? (Jesus lizard)
Crocodiles live in water and on ______.
What is land?
Reptiles breathe using their ______.
What are lungs?
The only reptile that can lose its tail and grow it back.
What is a lizard?
Baby reptiles that hatch from eggs are called ______.
What are hatchlings?
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are reptiles that love to eat ______.
What is pizza?
Desert lizards need this to survive, even if there’s little water.
What is heat/sunlight?
True or False: All reptiles lay eggs.
What is False? (Some give live birth, like certain snakes.)
This reptile has no legs but slithers.
What is a snake?
This part of the reptile’s body is shed when it grows.
What is its skin?
This snake from the story of Harry Potter was Voldemort's closest friend.
What is Nagini?
Sea turtles lay their eggs on ______.
What is the beach?
Reptiles have this covering on their bodies.
What are scales?
The largest living reptile in the world.
What is the saltwater crocodile?
Reptiles need the sun because they cannot make their own ______.
What is heat?
This giant reptile from movies like Jurassic Park isn’t alive today.
What is a dinosaur?
Snakes can be found on every continent except ______.
What is Antarctica?
Reptiles are vertebrates. That means they have a ______.
What is a backbone?
This desert reptile has a “frilled” neck that spreads out.
What is a frilled lizard?
Turtles don’t have teeth. Instead, they use a sharp ______.
What is beak?
Komodo dragons are the biggest ______ in the world.
What are lizards?
Some reptiles hibernate in winter. Another word for this is ______.
What is brumation? (simplified term for younger kids: “hibernation for reptiles”)