Reptiles Flashcards

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What is ectothermic?

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Get their eat from an outside source

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What are two things reptile owners need to provide?

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Natural diet and natural habitat

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How many body cavities of reptiles have?

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One, coelomic cavity

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What type of young do reptiles produce?

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Ovoviviparous and viviparous

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What does ovoviviparous mean?

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Produce egg young

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What does viviparous mean?

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Live young

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What are 2 other variations of the reptile organ system?

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Renal portal circulation and a three chambered heart

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What is the top of the turtle shell called?

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Carapace

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What is the bottom of the turtle shell called?

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Plastron

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What are the outter sections of a turtle shell called?

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Marginals

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What are the middle sections of a turtle shell look like?

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Pleurals

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What are the 4 middle sections of the turtle shells called?

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Vertebrals

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What are 5 types of bedding?

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Topsoil, sand, wood shavings, newspapers, synthetic turf

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What type of rocks should be in the terrarium?

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Flat-bottomed, smooth rocks

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What should the daytime temp be for a reptile?

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75-89F

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What should the nighttime temp be?

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About 5F cooler than daytime

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What are three primary heat sources for reptiles?

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Incandescent light bulbs
Ceramic heat emitters
Flood lamps

17
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What are two secondary heat sources for reptiles?

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Basking lamp

Heating pad

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How should you provide water?

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Place water dish or bowl in cage and use a spray mottle to most

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What type of eater is a snake?

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What type of eater is a lizard?

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Herbivore, insectivor, carnivor

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What do herbivor lizards eat?

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Chopped mixed vegtables and fruits with a vitamin mineral supplement

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What do insectivor reptiles eat? 6

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Crickets, mealworms, earthworms, grass hoppers, caterpillars, witan in/mineral supplement

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How many crickets should a insectivore lizard eat?

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What does a carnivor lizard eat?
Pre killed rodents, chicks, fish
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What type of eaters are turtles?
Omnivores, herbivores, carnivores
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Where can you get blood from a snake? E
Heart buccal veins ventral tail vein
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Where can a snakes heart be palpated?
1/4-1/5 way down
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How many bones does a turtles carapace have?
50
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What bones make up the plastron?
Clavicles and ribs
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What bones make up the car apiece?
Ribs and vertebrae
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What is the superficial layer of keratin shields called on a turtle?
Scutes
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Where are four places you can get blood from a turtle?
Right jug, dorsal tail, heart, toenail
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Where can you give a sc injection on a turtle?
Causal aspect of forelimb, crainial aspect of hindlimb
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Where can you give an in to a turtle?
Lateral muscle mass on forelimb
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Where can you give a ICe injection on a turtle?
Cranial aspect of rear legs in be trilateral quadrant
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What are two venomous lizards?
Fula monster and Mexican beaded lizard
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Which species of lizard has a large colon?
Herbivores
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What are three ways I tell you have a male lizard?
Longer dorsal spine, larger dewlaps, larger femoral pores
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Where do you give a I'm in a lizard?
Muscles in forelimb and dorsal shoulder area
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Where do you give a ICe injection on a lizard?
Caudel quadrants