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Eggs
Reptile Orders
Bird Structures
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100
What is the difference between the shell of a reptile egg and the shell of a bird egg?
The reptile egg shell is more leathery and the bird egg is more hard.
100
Name the two types of organisms in the order Squamata for reptiles.
Snakes and Lizards
100
What is the name of the feather that serves the bird in flight?
Contour Feather
100
Are reptiles ectotherms or endotherms? Are birds ectotherms or endotherms?
Reptiles - ectotherms Birds - endotherms
100
What is the name of the feathered fossil resembling a bird?
Archaeopteryx
200
What is the name of the part of the egg that is the main food supply for developing embryos?
Yolk
200
What reptilian organisms belong in the order Chelonia?
Turtles
200
Name the three structures of a flight feather that interlock to hold a feather together and make the bird body streamlined.
Barbs, Barbules and Hooks(Hooklets)
200
How are the skin of reptiles and birds alike and what is the advantage of this commonality?
They both have scales - all over the reptile but on the legs and feet of most birds. The scales serve to keep the body dry on the outside but keep the body from drying out on the inside.
200
What is the best shape of an egg? Why?
Oval - Oblong - it rolls the least
300
Birds and reptiles possess what structure to help them hatch out of the egg?
Egg tooth
300
What is the name of the order that crocodiles and alligators belong?
Crocodilia
300
Where are down feathers located on a bird and what is their function for birds?
The down feathers are under the contour feathers and they are fluffy insulators to keep the bird warm.
300
Which are more closely related to dinosaurs; reptiles or birds? What is the name of the type of dinosaur that has a skeleton closest to either reptiles or birds?
Birds Theropods
300
What is the name of the migrating bird that spends some of February, March and some of April in the Kearney, Elm Creek, Grand Island area?
Sandhill Crane
400
What is the name of the part of the egg that is a membrane and allows for gas exchange along with the allantois?
Chorion
400
What reptile belongs in the order Rhynochocephalia?
Tuataras
400
How do the respiratory and circulatory systems work together to allow for flight?
The bird has air sacs that store air so fresh air can always be circulated. The heart beats very fast to pump blood quickly throughout the body. (500 x compared to 70 x for humans)
400
How is it determined what a bird or reptile will eat? Give two examples for birds and two for reptiles.
The beak and feet of birds determines what is eaten. Long beaks and small perching feet -birds suck nectar from flowers. Hooked beaks and large curved clawed feet -birds tear at flesh and carry prey. Turtles are slow and usually eat vegetation or worms and mollusks. Snakes can poison prey with fangs or constrict prey with muscles to eat mammals usually.
400
What is the name of the poisonous lizard that lives in the southwestern United States?
Gila monster
500
What is the name of the structure of the reptile and bird egg that is a membrane filled with fluid that surrounds the embryo, cushions it and prevents dehydration?
Amnion
500
What order does the Komodo dragon belong?
Squamata
500
How are the bones and the sternum of birds adapted for flight?
The sternum is big and keel shaped for the attachment of muscles. The bones are hollow to allow the bird to be lighter.
500
Why do many reptiles go dormant in the cold climate winters? Why do many birds fly south for the cold climate winters?
Reptiles would freeze to death so they find a place be protected and slow their body down to survive the winter. Birds fly south to find a food supply because the food they eat in the winter disappears if is plants or insects.
500
What is the name of the structure in snakes and lizards that identifies molecules in the air that are transferred to it from the tongue?
The Jacobson's organ