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Question Set: Reptiles
NGSS Science and Engineering Practices
NGSS Crosscutting Concepts
NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas
Table of Contents
- Reptiles
- What are the five major modern reptile groups?
- Using your own words, describe the features that distinguish each group.
- Why are birds considered to be a reptile group?
- What common features do all reptiles share?
- For millions of years, reptiles dominated life on land as the top predators. What adaptations made reptiles so successful on land compared to earlier groups of vertebrate animals?
- Excluding birds, reptiles have been successful in colonizing almost all temperate and tropical habitats. What limits the success of reptiles in polar and alpine habitats?
- Reptile development
- How are reptile eggs different from amphibian and fish eggs?
- What is the significance of this difference in egg anatomy?