Reptiles Quiz #3

True or false all reptiles are oviparous

• True

• False

Tuataras can only be found in

• Austraila

• New Zealand

• South Africa

• South America

Something unique about the Tuatara is that it is most active at ____________.

• lower temperatures

• higher temperatures

• sea level

• altitudes higher than 50

Unlike other reptiles, crocodilians

• unbury their young before they hatch

• care for their young after hatching

• give live birth

• can't swim

Alligators and Crocodiles typically lay between _______ eggs in a mass of dead vegetation or buried in the sand.

• 20-50

• 30-60

• 50-100

• 10-12

Alligators and Crocodiles are oviparous.

• True

• False

Male alligators make loud __________ during mating.

• bellows

• burps

• croaks

• splashes

Male Gharials are well known for their

• fish eating abilities

• long snout

• conspicuous knob at the tip of their snout

• extremely long tail

Gharials (also known as Gavials) live only in

• India and Burma

• Indonesia and West Asia

• The Himalayan Mountains

• Florida

Caimans are native to Central America and South America but have been introduced in which state?

• Florida

• Texas

• Mississippi

• Louisiana