Reptile Scavenger Hunt
“The living fossil”
RETICULATED
PYTHON
The living fossil order
tuatara
How do reptiles conserve water?
sphenodonta
Scientists agree on what killed the
dinosaurs?
Pasty feces
1 INVALID hypothesis on what killed
the dinosaurs
GLOBAL
CLIMATE
CHANGE
Top of the tuatara’s head lays a….
Small mammals ate
all the dinosaur
eggs!
When snakes move in a straight line
RD
3
EYE
Land dinosaur with 3 horns
RECTILINEAR
MOTION
OLDEST CHELONIAN
TRICERATOPS
Small/short armed land dinosaur
GALAPAGOS
TORTOISE
Organs that detect smell
T-REX
Horned pterosaur
JACOBSON’S
ORGANS
Snake movement with 2 pts of contact
DIMORPHODAN
Lays eggs
SIDEWINDER
Bacteria carrying large lizard
OVIPAROUS
Venomous lizard
KOMODO
DRAGON
Egg water
GILA
MONSTER
Amniote diffusion membrane/waste
removal
AMNIOTIC
FLUID
“modified egg” in mammals
ALLANTOIS
Crocodilians with U-shaped snout
PLACENTA
African croc
ALLIGATOR
African venomous snake (aggressive)
NILE
CROCOCDILE
Venomous Australian snake/aggressive
BLACK
MAMBA
Most numerous reptile order
EASTERN
BROWN
Carapacial Order
SQUAMATA
Ventral part of the turtle shell
CHELONIA
Ditches the tail/survival tactic
plastron
Indian crocodilian
CAUDAL
AUTOTOMY
EGG WHITE
GAVIAL
Strangling Squamatan
ALBUMIN