Exploring Our Fluid Earth

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Question Set: Reptiles
NGSS Science and Engineering Practices
Engaging in Argument from Evidence
NGSS Crosscutting Concepts
Structure and Function
NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas
LS1.A: Structure and Function
LS1.B: Growth and Development of Organisms
LS1.C: Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms
LS4.A: Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity
LS4.C: Adaptation
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Question Set: Reptiles
  1. Reptiles
    1. What are the five major modern reptile groups?
    2. Using your own words, describe the features that distinguish each group.
    3. Why are birds considered to be a reptile group?
    4. What common features do all reptiles share?
       
  2. 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?
     
  3. 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?
     
  4. Reptile development
    1. How are reptile eggs different from amphibian and fish eggs?
    2. What is the significance of this difference in egg anatomy?
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