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47 Cards in this Set
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Name the 4 membranes around a reptile egg and tell what each does.
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Chorion-respiration & protection
Amnion-Protection & keeps embryo moist Allantois-Stores waste Yolk Sac-Provides stored food |
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Snakes can see ______ and _______
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Movent & Close Objects
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What type of a heart do reptiles have? What advantage is this?
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3 Chambered.2 atriums.partially divided ventricle.Prevents mixing of oxygenated & noxygenated blood
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Reptiles bodies are covered by _____ or ______ that protect against _________ and ____________.
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bony plates,scales,water loss and physical damage
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How can snakes breath when swallowing?
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trachea extends to front of lower jaw
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Turtles have a _____ ______ beak.
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Toothless horny
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Why are snakes useful?
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Eats rodents & other pests
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Why do snakes shed their skin and how do they do it?
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Rub side of face on a rock or stick.Skin rolls up & catches. Snake rolls out.
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Snakes can strike ___ to ____ of thier length.
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1/3 to 1/2
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Reptiles are ____ blooded.
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Cold
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Reptiles breath through _____
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lungs
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How fast can snakes move?
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.6-1mph
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Nictitating membrane
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3rd eyelid
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Keratin
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What snake scales are made of
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Eats plants & animals
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Omnivore
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Eardrum
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typanic membrane
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top shell
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carapace
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broad plats on bottom
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scutes
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active at night
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elliptical
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bottom shell
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plastron
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means active during day
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Round pupils
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elliptical pupil means active at night
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nocturnal
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sea marsh turtle
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terrapin
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live young
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vivparous
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round pupil acting during day
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diurnal
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2 pits in the roof of snakes mouth
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Jacobsons organ
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eggs hated in body
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Ovoviviparous
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Heat sensing pit below eye
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Pit viper
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Ectotherm
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Cold blooded
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land turtle
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tortoise
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ecdysis
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sheds skin
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3 poisonous snakes of PA
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Timber Rattler
Massasauga Rattler Copperhead |
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2 poisonous lizards
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Gila Monster
Beaded |
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4 crocodilia
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Alligators
Crocodiles Gaivils Caimen |
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2 Chelonia
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Tortoise & crocodilians
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1 rhychocephalia
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Tuatara
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Best known lizard
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Chameleon
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Most common lizard in PA
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skink
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Largest lizard in US
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iguana
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Largest lizard in world
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Komodo Dragon
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Largest poisonous snake in US
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Eastern Diamond Back
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Most snake death in PA
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Western Diamondback
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Largest Poisonous snake in world
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King Cobra
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Most snake deaths in the world
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Russells viper & asian cobra
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Biggest fangs
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Gabon viper
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Meanest snake
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Black mamba
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3 strongest venom snakes
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Tiger
Crate Saw scale vipe |
