Section 4 Reptiles

Question 1

What is a reptile

Answer 1

An ectothermic vertebrate that has lungs and scaly skin

Question 2

True or false: ancestors of modern amphibians were the first vertebrate adapted to life completely out of water

Answer 2

False: the answer is reptiles were the first to be adapted to life completely out of water

Question 3

Where do reptiles get their oxygen from?

Answer 3

The air , they breathe completely with lungs

Question 4

What things in a reptile are adapted to conserve water?

Answer 4

Their skin, kidneys and eggs

Question 5

What are two functions of the reptiles scaly skin?

Answer 5

The dry tough skins protect reptiles and helps keep water in their bodies

Question 6

What are some examples of reptiles ?

Answer 6

Snakes, lizards, turtles and alligators

Question 7

How do kidneys help reptiles from losing water?

Answer 7

The kidneys of reptiles concentrate the urine so that the reptiles lose very little water when they filter out waste

Question 8

Does a reptiles egg have a shell that keep the embryos moist so it doesn’t dry out

Answer 8

Yes it has a amniotic egg which is an egg that has a shell and internal membranes that keep it moist

Question 9

What is a characteristic that both lizards and snakes have?

Answer 9

Skin covered with overlapping scales

Question 10

What happens when lizards and snakes grow? What do they shed?

Answer 10

Their skin and scales , they replace the worn ones with new skin and scales

Question 11

What type of climate do most lizards and snakes live in?

Answer 11

Warm areas

Question 12

How do snakes differ from lizards

Answer 12

Lizards have 4 legs with claws on their toes , snakes have no legs . Lizards have long tails external ears and moveable eyelids and 2 lungs. Snakes have streamlined bodies no external ears, no eyelids and only one lung

Question 13

Are most lizards carnivores?

Answer 13

Yes but a few are herbivores.

Question 14

How do lizards catch their prey?

Answer 14

They jump on it or they have adaptations like sticky tongues adapted for snaring insects

Question 15

Are all snakes carnivores

Answer 15

Yes they feed on small animals such as mice

Question 16

Do some snakes eat larger prey?

Answer 16

Yes their jawbones can spread wide apart and the bones in a snakes skull can move to let the snake swallow an animal larger in diameter then itself!

Question 17

Do all snakes have venom glands

Answer 17

NO but some do

Question 18

How does a snake move?

Answer 18

Slithers across the ground. They move by contracting ( shortening) bands of muscles that are connected to their ribs and backbones

Question 19

Are alligators crocodiles and their relatives the largest living reptiles?

Answer 19

Yes

Question 20

Are both alligators and crocodiles large carnivorous reptiles that care for their young?

Answer 20

Yes true

Question 21

What is the difference between an alligator and a crocodile?

Answer 21

Alligators have broad rounded snouts with only a few teeth visible when their mouths are shut. Crocodiles have pointed snouts with most of their teeth visible when their mouths are shut

Question 22

When do crocodiles and alligators hunt and what do they eat?

Answer 22

They often hunt at night . They are carnivores and will eat deer dogs and raccoons but rarely attack humans

Question 23

What is a turtle?

Answer 23

A reptile whose body is covered by a protective shell that includes ribs and a backbone

Question 24

True or false? All turtles can pull their head, legs and tail inside their shell?

Answer 24

False ( a box turtle can but a snapping turtle has a much smaller shell)

Question 25

Are all turtle shells hard ?

Answer 25

No some are as soft as pancakes

Question 26

Instead of teeth what do turtles have?

Answer 26

Sharp edged beak for tearing food

Question 27

Are all turtles carnivores?

Answer 27

No some eat jellyfish some eat cacti

Question 28

True or false? Some dinosaurs may have been endotherms

Answer 28

TRUE

Question 29

True or false : dinosaurs were the earliest vertebrates to have legs positioned under their bodies

Answer 29

TRUE

Question 30

Some scientists think what descended from certain small dinosaurs?

Answer 30

Birds

Question 31

Did most herbivore or carnivore dinosaurs walk on 4 legs?

Answer 31

Herbivorous dinosaurs walked on 4 legs . Carnivorous dinosaurs walked on 2 legs

Question 32

Three adaptations that reptiles have for conserve water are?

Answer 32

Tough skin, kidneys and eggs with shells

Question 33

Snakes have specialized what that help them eat large prey?

Answer 33

Jaws

Question 34

All reptiles breathe with

Answer 34

Lungs

Question 35

Snakes look a lot like lizards but snakes don’t have

Answer 35

Legs