8.3 Flashcards

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Cooled blooded vertebrates that breathe with lungs

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Reptiles

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2
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What happens that makes scales on a reptiles so hard

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They are keratinized

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3
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Most numerous reptiles

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Lizards

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4
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Color changing cell in a lizards body

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Chromatophores

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5
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Protective part of reptile shell

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Amnion

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6
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What happens when a lizard loses its tale

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Regenerates

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7
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A group of 50 old world lizards

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Monitor lizards

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8
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A very poisonous lizard

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Gila monster

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9
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Most familiar lizard group

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Geckos

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10
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Colorful herbivore lizards

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Iguanas

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11
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Arabella lizard found in tropical areas called the color king

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Chameleon

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12
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Lizards with elongated shiny scales

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Skinks

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13
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Legless reptiles with unique body design

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Snakes

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14
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Most common first way for a snake to move

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Lateral undulation

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15
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Snake alternately stretch in unique body movements

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Rectilinear movements

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16
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Where a snake moves and it looks like an accordion

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Concertina movement

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17
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When a snake loses its skin it is cald

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Molting

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18
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Scent organ on the roof of the snakes mouth

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Jacob son’s organ

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19
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A snakes litter is cald a

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Clutch

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20
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Poisonous liquid snakes use in thier fangs to protect themselves and kill there prey

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Venom

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21
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Less than 20% of snakes kill humans by

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Snake bites

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22
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Two common poisonous snakes are cald the

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Elapids, and Vipers

23
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Best known Elapid

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Longest venomous snake

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Snake spits venomous acid from their fangs
Spitting Cobra
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Have venomous gland size of 1/3 its body
Kraits
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Snake that stays u def water all of its life
Sea snake
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Most common elapid
Coral snake
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Poisonous snakes that have 2 groups cald Old World Vipers and Pit Vipers
Vipor family
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Slow moving snakes that squeeze their prey till death then eat
Constrictors
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Most common constrictor
Boa and python
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Largest groups of snakes
Colubrids
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Worlds smallest snakes
Blind snakes
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Only reptiles with a shell
Turtles
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Paddle like fins and only come on land to lay eggs
Marine turtle
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Largest living turtle
Leatherback turtle
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Live in freshwater rivers, enjoy the mud
Snapping turtle
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Turtles only found on land
Tortoise
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Largest living reptile
Crocodilians
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Swift aggressive predators
Crocodiles
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Have brod snouts and do not show their teeth
Alligators
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Long sleek snout live only in India
Gharials
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Name means peak on back and are nocturnal lizard like reptiles
Tuartara
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Means terrible Lizard by Richard Owen large birdlike lizards
Dinosaurs
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Carnivorous dinosaurs that walked on 2 legs
Theropods
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Large herbivorous animals like apatosaurus
Sauropods
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Dinosaurs that ranged from 1.2 meters - 8 meters
Cerotopsians
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Triangle plated lizard
Stegosaurous
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Giant horned lizards
Ankylasaurs
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Bony dome shaped headed Dino
Pachycephalosaurs
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Only flying Dino
Pterosaur
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Giant Dino’s of the sea
Plesiosaur
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Dino that looked mainly like a dolphin
Ichthyosaurus
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