AY Honors/Reptiles/Answer Key
1. What characteristics must an animal have to be classed as a reptile?
Reptiles are cold blooded animals. They are thick-skinned. Most have scales and reproduce by egg-laying. The lack of a larval stage distinguishes reptiles from amphibians.
2. Name 15 reptiles (lizards, snakes, and/or turtles) found in your locality. Tell where they live, their food habits, and their economic importance.
http://enature.org is a good resource for this. You can search local wildlife by zip code, and it also gives information about each animal.
3. Name five venomous reptiles of your area describing each as to the location of their fangs and geographical distribution.
4. Tell what to do if you are bitten by a venomous snake.
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/First aid/Snake bite
5. Tell what to do if you are bitten by a non-venomous snake.
Treatment of a non-venomous snakebite is essentially the same as the treatment for puncture wounds. Clean the wound, cover it with a sterile bandage, and seek medical attention.
6. Do one of the following:
a. Tell the life history of one representative of each: lizard, snake, turtle. Compare lizards, snakes, turtles, and crocodiles as to life history, variation in eyes and ears, teeth, heart, lungs, limbs, tails, and scales (shells).
b. Keep a small reptile in a terrarium and maintain a record of its care for three months.
7. Locate two Bible stories in which a reptile played an important part.
Eve tempted by the serpent in the garden of Eden (Genesis 3)
Moses and Aaron's staffs becoming snakes (Exodus 4 & 7)
People who were bit by snakes could look at bronze snake on pole to live (Numbers 21)
Paul was bitten by a viper, which he shook off into the fire. The people thought he was a god since he didn't die. (Acts 28)
