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Anatomy: Heart
Anatomy: Nervous system
Thermoregulation
Other
100
The lining of lungs folded into small sacs
Alveoli
100
What do snakes, lizards, tuataras and turtles have in common?
2 atria, a single ventricle partially divided by the septum
100
Most reptiles rely on their _____ to detect predators and prey
Sight
100
The control of body temperature
Thermoregulation
100
What wraps its body around prey to suffocate it or injects poison to capture its prey?
Constrictor Snake
200
What contains protein and water needed by the embryo?
Albumen
200
Crocodile hearts have:
2 atria and 2 separate ventricles
200
______ ______ is sensitive to odors
Jacobson's Organ
200
________ warms its body by absorbing heat from its surroundings
ectotherm
200
How many species of turtles and tortoises are there?
250
300
The same protein that forms your fingernails. A wall of tissue that divides a ventricle.
Keratin, Septum
300
What forms the base of the three large arteries exiting from the reptilian heart?
The conus arteriosus
300
What are pit vipers, such as rattlesnakes, copperheads, and water moccasins able to detect in prey?
The heat of the warm-bodied animals
300
What have rapid metabolisms that generate heat to warm the body?
endotherm
300
Order Crocodilia are closely related to what?
Dinosaurs
400
What stores the nitrogenous wastes produced by the embryo? What is the thin membrane?
Allantois, Amnion
400
Major structures in the heart of a fish that are much smaller in reptiles
Sinus venosus and the conus arteriosus
400
How do reptiles gather chemicals from the environment?
Using their tongues
400
What can regulate their body temperature in two different ways?
Vertebrates
400
List the four orders of living reptiles
Rhynchocephalia, Chelonia, Crocodilia, and Squamata
500
What is located in the roof of the mouth of reptiles? What is the control body of temperature?
Jacobson's Organ, Thermoregulation
500
Deoxygenated and oxygenated blood is kept separate during ______ by the actions of the heart cells
The contraction of the heart
500
How do reptiles gather chemicals from the environment?
sight
500
How do reptiles regulate their body temperature?
They control how much heat they absorb
500
What species does order Rhynchocephalia have?
Tuatara