Chapter 18 Flashcards
(21 cards)
Another name for cold blooded
Poikilothermic
What term describes animals that make eggs but the eggs hatch inside them and the young are birthed alive
Ovoviviparous
What are four legged reptiles with tapered tails
Lizard
What type of snake movement is it where the snake slithers toward on the same path
Lateral undulation
What snake movement is where the snake alternately stretches and shortens body segments
Rectilinear movement
What snake movement is when the snake alternately coils and uncoils
Concertina
What snake movement is when the snake lifts its body off the ground and throws it sideways
Sidewinding movement
What bones allow a snake to hear
Quad rate bones
What organ gives the snake its acute sense of smelll
Jacobson’s organ
What enables snakes to be able to breath while swallowing prey whole
They shove the trachea out of their mouth
What enables snakes to be able to swallow prey whole
Double hinged jaws
Largest group of snakes, includes garter snakes and hognose snakes
Colubrids
What family of snakes are the constrictors and include pythons
Boid family
What family of snakes have immovable fangs includes cobras
Elapids
What type of snake venom affects the nervous system
Neurotoxin
What is a type of summer dormancy in turtles
Estivation
What special thing does tuatara have
Parietal eye
What are the largest living reptiles
Crocodiles
What is the transition of the larva into an adult which usually involves major changes in body structure
Metamorphosis
What are frogs and toads called collectively
Anurans
