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1

There is no evidence that reptiles evolved from amphibians.

a) True
b) False
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2

What is the scientific name for the Marine iguanas?

a) Labyrinthodontia
b) Seymouria
c) Amblyrhyncus cristatus
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3

Solar radiation is their (Reptiles and Amphibians) direct source of heat.

a) True
b) False
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4

Humans are endothermic animals.

a) True
b) False
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5

Which two dinosaur species return to living in the sea?

a) cotylosaurs
b) ichthyosaurs
c) plesiosaurs
d) Archosaurs
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6

Fill in the missing words.

Fossilized bones of this creature (Tuatara Sphenodon punctatus) have be dated to years ago and may represent one of the most basic (tetrapod), , egg-laying that was a predecessor to the great dinosaurs

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7

Fill in the missing words:

Amphibians and earliest that evolved from them are often referred to as , and the stem reptiles themselves are called .

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Word bank: captorhinomorphs, cotylosaurs, reptiles

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8

Match the following:

a) Animals that are characterzied by a solid skull root with no temporal openings in the skull.
b) Animals who's skulls primitively possess upper and lower temporal openings behind the orbit of each eye.
c) Animals who's skulls have a single (lower) temporal opening behind the orbit of each eye.
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9

A fossil dinosaur, Seismosaurus, unearthed in 1986 appeared to have been how many metres long ?

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10

Match the animals to thier order:

a) turtles and toroises
b) snakes and lizards
c) Tuatara
d) sailbacks
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11

Which one does not fit? The triasic period produced new forms of reptiles:

a) archeosaurs
b) ichthyosaurs
c) sailbacks
d) pterosaurs
e) crocodiles
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12

Match the following periods to the years.

a) Triasic
b) Permian
c) Tertiary
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13

Which two classes fall under synapsids?

a) Pelycosauria
b) Squamata
c) Therapsida
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14

The region richest in deposits of dinosaur fossils is Mongolia.

a) True
b) False
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15

Match the following lengths to the respective animals.

a) chicken size
b) 25m
c) 43m
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16

How many growth stages did Tyrannosaurus rex probably undergo?

a) 2
b) 3
c) 5
d) 6
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17

Match the following with regard to the life stages of Tyrannosaurus rex.

a) Not agile, solitary, scavenging lifestyle
b) Very active capable of scampering around like some groundbirds do today.
c) Less agile, may have travelled in packs.
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18

Fill in the missing words.

The dinosaurs had several extinction phases, with the dinosaurs, being replaced by , low browsing, beaked dinosaurs at the end of the and early .

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Word bank: Cretaceous, Jurassic, gigantic, smaller

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19

Which dinosaur was not carnivorous?

a) Tyrannosaurus
b) Apatosaurus
c) Allosaurus
d) Sauropods
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20

Bats are the descendants of the Pterosaurs.

a) True
b) False
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21

The most likely theory of the extinction of dinosaurs is that the earth was hit by an 10 km in size.

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22

The latent heat capacity of water is greater than that of land.

a) True
b) False
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23

In crocodiles the upper retinal hemisphere has a photopigment similar to that of freshwater animals (), whereas the ventral retinal hemisphere has the pigment of terrestrial animals ().

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24

In Nile crocodiles, at what constant temperature must the eggs be buried for incubation?

a) 25 degrees Celcius
b) 27 degrees Celcius
c) 30 degrees Celcius
d) 36 degrees Celcius
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25

The strengthened bony plates occurring in tortoises become modified to form a continuous dorsal and a ventral .

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26

Match the modified scales with the animal.

a) stout polished scales
b) round pink and black (venomous) scales
c) spiny scales
d) lamellae on scales
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27

In the Family Pygopodidae, there are species with varying number of digits. Select the correct numbers.

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
e) 5
f) 6
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28

Match the comon names with the correct genera.

a) Crotalus
b) Naja
c) Dendroaspis
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29

In rattle snakes reproduction is

a) oviparous
b) viviparous
c) ovoviviparous
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30

Rattle snakes are nocturnal hunters and use a pit located between the nostril and the eye to detect radiation.

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