What is a Bird?
What is a Reptile?
Form, Function, & Flight
of Birds
Form & Function -
Reptiles
Random Questions
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What are 2 front limbs attached to the front of a bird, & in most cases can help it fly?
Wings
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Amphibious-like ancestors
Where do reptiles evolve from?
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Location where food is stored and moistened in the crop before it moves further in the digestive tract.
What is the crop?
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An organism that relies on behavior to help control its body temperature.
What is an ectotherm?
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How many species of reptiles are their?
8,000
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What did birds evolve from?
Extinct Reptiles
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Membrane created by the female at which develops an embryo that can not be dried out called an
Amniotic Egg
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Aids in the mechanical, or physcial, breakdown, of food through grinding.
What is the gizzard?
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How do reptiles reproduce?
Internal fertilization
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Where are 2/3 of all bird species found?
tropical rain forests
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Animals that can maintain their own body temperate and generate their own heat
What are endotherms?
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lizards & snakes, crocodilians, turtles & tortoises, and the tuatara
What are the 4 surviving groups of reptiles?
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How many chambers does a birds heart have?
4
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What kind of circulatory system does a reptile have?
double loop circulatory system
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How long can tortoises live?
up to 150 years
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How many different orders of birds are there?
30
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What is a reptile?
A vertebrae that has dry, scaly skin, lungs, and terrestrial eggs with several membranes.
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What is the air sac?
A large posterior where air enters once a bird inhales.
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what form do reptiles have that birds don't?
teeth
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This group resembles lizards, but lacks external ears and retain primitive scales. They have a legendary "third eye".
What is tuataras?
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Name the four main characteristics of most birds.
Maintaining an internal body temperature, outer covering of feathers, two legs covered with scales, and front limbs modified into wings
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The first known reptile fossil was traced back to
Carboniferous Period
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If a bird cannot fly, such as an Ostrich, their wings are what kind of structures?
Vestigial Structures
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5 adaptations of reptiles include..
well-developed lung system, a double loop circulatory system, a water conserving excretory system, strong limbs and internal Fertilization.
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lays the biggest eggs in the world
Ostrich
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