Reptiles
Turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, and crocodiles of creation?
What is Class Reptilia?
They have specialized scales on their bodies, are carnivorous, deaf, and sense vibrations that travel through the ground.
What are snakes?
These animals are found in the Order Testudines.
What are turtles and tortoises?
A shelled, water-retaining egg that allows reptile, bird, and certain mammal embryos to develop on land.
What is an amniotic egg?
The period of time during which an embryo develops before being born.
What is Gestation?
Three of the five characteristics of the class, Reptilia.
What are...
Covered with tough, dry scales
Ectothermic
Breathe with lungs throughout their lives
Three-chambered heart with a ventricle that is partially divided
Produce amniotic eggs covered with a leathery shell, most oviparous, some ovoviviparous
This reptile has four legs, can close their eyes, can hear, and have scales on their bellies that are the same as the scales on the rest of their bodies.
What are lizards?
This species reaches a weight of 270 pounds and are marine dwelling.
What are hawksbill turtles?
These lay their eggs underwater.
What are fish and amphibians?
This forms so that the embryo can develop insides the other.
What is a placenta?
The four orders of the class, Reptilia.
What are
Testudines
Squamata
Crocodilia
and Rhynchocephalia?
Snakes and lizards make up this order.
What is the order, Squamata?
The largest member of the order Testudines.
What is the leatherback sea turtle (and can weigh as much as 1500 pounds)?
Name the two parts of a feather.
What is the shaft and a vane?
Milk in mammals are produced here.
What are Mammary glands?
What are tuatara?
Poisonous snakes produce these two poisons.
What are Neurotoxins and Hemotoxins?
Name two differences between the alligators and the crocodiles.
Alligators have thick, blunt snouts
Alligators’ teeth fit inside mouth when closed
Crocodiles have thinner, pointed snouts?
An organism that is internally warmed by a heat-generating metabolic process.
What is Endotherm?
Name four of the five characteristics of this Order.
What are ...
Hair covering the skin
Reproduce with internal fertilization and usually viviparous
Nourish their young with milk secreted from specialized glands
Four-chambered heart
Endothermic
The white part of an egg that God created in the egg to protect the embryo.
What is the albumen?
Name 3 lizards and 3 snakes.
What are ...
the iguana, Komodo dragon, gecko, chameleon, horned toad, and Gila monster
Anaconda, Python, Ball python, boa constrictor, sea snake, coral snake, cobra, viper, pit-viper, water moccasin, copperhead, rattlesnake, western diamondback, black-necked cobra?
What is floating in the water with just eyes and nose above the surface?
Name four of the six characteristics of this class.
Endothermic
Heart with four chambers
Toothless bill
Oviparous, laying an amniotic egg that is covered in a lime-containing shell
Covered with feathers
Skeleton composed of porous, lightweight bones?
Name nine of the eighteen orders of this class.
What are...
aratiodactyla, Carnivora, Cetacea, Chiroptera, Dermoptera, Edentata, Hyracoidea, Insectivora, Lagomorpha, Marsupialia, Monotremata, Perissodactyla, Pholidota, Primates, Proboscidea, Roduntia, Sirenia, and Tubulidentata?