Characteristics of Reptiles
Types of Reptiles
Characteristics of Birds
Types of Birds
Other
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Where are they not able to live?
cold areas
100
Which dinosaurs ate leafy plants?
Plateousaurus
100
What are made mostly of protein and develop from pits in the birds' skin?
feathers
100
What is a colorful and noisy bird that use their feet to hold food?
parrot
100
What period did reptiles appear?
Carboniferous Period (350 million years ago)
200
What do they have to exchange gases with the environment?
2 lungs (certain species of snakes have 1 lung)
200
How do iguanas get their energy?
by being herbivores
200
A bird can generate their own body heat, meaning they are what?
endotherms
200
What is the largest order of birds with over 5000 species?
passerines (perching birds)
200
What do ectotherms rely on to help control body temperature?
behavior
300
How can they control their body temperature?
moving to a different place
300
What is a large, stocky lizard that lives in the southwestern United States and Mexico that have glands that produce venom for defense?
Gila monster
300
What effects the type of food they eat?
beak/bill
300
What type of bird lives in holes that they make in trees, mounds, or underground tunnels?
cavity-nesting birds
300
What is a reptilian egg that creates a protective environment in which the embryo can develop without drying out?
amniotic egg
400
What do they have to detect chemicals when they flick their tongues?
pair of sensory organs
400
Which reptiles have the most developed hearts?
crocodiles and alligators
400
How is the heart separated?
right ventricle and left ventricle
400
What is the first birdlike fossil discovered?
Archaeopteryx
400
What type of feather provides the lifting force and balance needed for flight?
contour feather
500
How do they reproduce?
internal fertilization
500
What type of snake has the ability to detect body heat of their prey?
Viper
500
Where is food stored and moistened before it moves further in the digestive tract?
crop
500
What are flightless birds that move by running or swimming?
ostriches
500
What produces heat and is the sum of chemical and physical processes that go on inside the body?
metabolism
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