General & Habitat
Diet
Reproduction
Senses
Physical Characteristics
100
Squamata is the largest group of reptiles, including which reptiles?
What are lizards (and snakes)?
100
This is the diet of many small lizards and smaller snakes.
What are insects or other invertebrates?
100
This is the type of material squamate eggs are made of to prevent drying out.
What are leathery shells?
100
This collects scent particles from the environment.
What is the forked tongue?
100
These squamates have moveable eyelids and external ears.
What are lizards?
200
This is what snakes use to prevent prey from escaping their mouths.
What are backwards facing teeth?
200
This is the diet of many iguanas.
What are flowers, fruit, and leaves?
200
Because of their shell, squamate eggs can be laid far away from this.
What is water?
200
These sense heat.
What are heat-sensing pits?
200
Scales that have a ridge are known as this.
What are keeled?
300
According to a video we watched, a certain species of lizard, as a defense mechanism, will squirt this out of its eye.
What is blood?
300
This is a large mammal that monitor lizards will eat.
What is a buffalo?
300
These are a pair of organs of snake and lizard males that are usually inverted within the body and become everted for reproduction.
What are hemipenes?
300
This is the organ that processes chemical signals from "smelling".
What is the jacobson's organ?
300
Lizards have these cells in their skin, allowing them to change color.
What are chromatophores?
400
This helps squamate eggs survive on dry land.
What is having a leathery shell?
400
Calves, deer, and other big mammals are the food choice of these organisms.
What are boa constrictors and pythons?
400
Most squamates lay their eggs in these types of areas.
What are warm, moist, dark places?
400
This is the system that squamates use in order to "smell" chemical signals.
What is the chemosensory system?
400
Recite the saying to tell the difference between these snakes.
Red to black, venom lack. Red to yellow, one dead fellow?
500
Since they lay eggs, and therefore do not NEED to be near water, this is the type of habitat squamates can live in.
What is nearly every type of habitat?
500
This is how long a boa constrictor or komodo dragon can go without eating after having a large mammal for a meal.
What is a year?
500
Unlike most reptiles, some squamates give live birth, a process known as this.
What is viviparity?
500
In addition to eating, this is the other way that snakes use their jaws.
What is to sense ground vibrations, alerting them to nearby prey?
500
Some lizards can lose and regrow their tails in a process called this.
What is autotomy?