Reptile Groups
This group has snakes and lizards.
What is Squamata?
Lizards use this long part to catch bugs
What is the tounge?
Some lizards detach this part to escape predators
What is their tail?
Snakes and lizards eat these to help control the population
insects and rodents
This reptile can live over 100 years
tortoise
This group includes turtles and tortoises
What is Testudine?
Turtles use this to protect themselves from danger
What is the shell
Turtles can do this to avoid being eaten
What is pulling into their shells?
Turtles help clean nature by eating this
dead plants and animals
This reptile has no eyelids
This group includes crocodiles and alligators.
What is Crocodillia?
Crocodiles use these to grab and crush prey
What is jaw and teeth?
Crocodiles can do this to stay underwater for a long time
What is holding their breath or slowing down their heart rate
Crocodiles are this in the food chain, helping keep animal numbers balanced.
top predator
This lizard can change its skin color
chameleon
This group is known for having scaly skin and laying leathery eggs
What are reptiles?
Snakes use this body part to smell chemicals in the air
What is the tounge
Snakes can do this to eat prey much bigger than them
What is unhinging their jaw
Reptiles help spread these when they move through plants
what are seeds
This group includes reptiles that can live on land and in water, and many have strong jaws.
What is Crocodillia?
These help reptiles keep water in their bodies so they don't dry out.
What is scaly skin
Reptiles are cold blooded so they do this to stay warm
what is taking heat from the outside environment?
If reptiles dissapeared, this could happen to their ecosystem