8.3 Flashcards
Cooled blooded vertebrates that breathe with lungs
Reptiles
What happens that makes scales on a reptiles so hard
They are keratinized
Most numerous reptiles
Lizards
Color changing cell in a lizards body
Chromatophores
Protective part of reptile shell
Amnion
What happens when a lizard loses its tale
Regenerates
A group of 50 old world lizards
Monitor lizards
A very poisonous lizard
Gila monster
Most familiar lizard group
Geckos
Colorful herbivore lizards
Iguanas
Arabella lizard found in tropical areas called the color king
Chameleon
Lizards with elongated shiny scales
Skinks
Legless reptiles with unique body design
Snakes
Most common first way for a snake to move
Lateral undulation
Snake alternately stretch in unique body movements
Rectilinear movements
Where a snake moves and it looks like an accordion
Concertina movement
When a snake loses its skin it is cald
Molting
Scent organ on the roof of the snakes mouth
Jacob son’s organ
A snakes litter is cald a
Clutch
Poisonous liquid snakes use in thier fangs to protect themselves and kill there prey
Venom
Less than 20% of snakes kill humans by
Snake bites
Two common poisonous snakes are cald the
Elapids, and Vipers
Best known Elapid
Cobra
Longest venomous snake
King cobra
Snake spits venomous acid from their fangs
Spitting Cobra
Have venomous gland size of 1/3 its body
Kraits
Snake that stays u def water all of its life
Sea snake
Most common elapid
Coral snake
Poisonous snakes that have 2 groups cald Old World Vipers and Pit Vipers
Vipor family
Slow moving snakes that squeeze their prey till death then eat
Constrictors
Most common constrictor
Boa and python
Largest groups of snakes
Colubrids
Worlds smallest snakes
Blind snakes
Only reptiles with a shell
Turtles
Paddle like fins and only come on land to lay eggs
Marine turtle
Largest living turtle
Leatherback turtle
Live in freshwater rivers, enjoy the mud
Snapping turtle
Turtles only found on land
Tortoise
Largest living reptile
Crocodilians
Swift aggressive predators
Crocodiles
Have brod snouts and do not show their teeth
Alligators
Long sleek snout live only in India
Gharials
Name means peak on back and are nocturnal lizard like reptiles
Tuartara
Means terrible Lizard by Richard Owen large birdlike lizards
Dinosaurs
Carnivorous dinosaurs that walked on 2 legs
Theropods
Large herbivorous animals like apatosaurus
Sauropods
Dinosaurs that ranged from 1.2 meters - 8 meters
Cerotopsians
Triangle plated lizard
Stegosaurous
Giant horned lizards
Ankylasaurs
Bony dome shaped headed Dino
Pachycephalosaurs
Only flying Dino
Pterosaur
Giant Dino’s of the sea
Plesiosaur
Dino that looked mainly like a dolphin
Ichthyosaurus