Reptiles and Amphibians
Vertebrates that have scaly skin, or ectothermic, breathe oxygen using lungs and lay eggs.
What is reptiles?
Another name for land turtles
What are tortoises?
A toxin capable of causing injury or death through injection into prey
What is venom?
If caught by a predator a lizard can___________.
What is break off its tail?
Countries where the only two species of Alligators are found
What is U.S. and China?
Vertebrates that have wet skin, can live in water or in land, are ectothermic, and typically breathe oxygen through their skin, gills when young, and lungs as an adult.
What are amphibians?
A name for turtles that live in fresh water and brackish water
What are terrapins?
A type of snake that wraps around and compresses it's prey
What is a constrictor?
Lizard with no legs
What is glass lizard?
Long narrow v shaped snout
What is a crocodile?
Animal must rely on outside sources such as the sun to maintain their body temperature.
What is ectothermic?
The top part of the shell on the turtles back
What is carapace?
The act of shedding an outer layer, such as feathers, skin or an exoskeleton as an animal grows larger
What is molt?
A lizard uses it's tongue to ___________
What is smell?
A word for mostly active at night.
What is nocturnal?
An animal having a vertebrae or backbones
What is a vertebrate?
The bony piece that covers the turtle's belly
What is a plastron?
Snakes do not have eyelids. Instead their eyes are covered by a transparent___________.
What is scales?
The largest and heaviest lizard in the world.
What is Kimono Dragon?
The crocodile that has a symbiotic relationship with a small bird
What is a Nile Crocodile?
Another term for ectothermic
What is cold blooded?
Oldest age a turtle has lived
What is 150 yrs?
Two animals that prey on snakes.
Can give two of the following answers...what are birds of prey, foxes, other reptiles, bobcats, raccoons, skunks
Lizard that can walk on water.
Basilisk Lizard
The only wild place where you can find both crocodiles and alligators.
What is Florida?