Marine Reptiles

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Study guide covering marine reptiles for Marine Verts class
Jo O'Bar
Quiz by Jo O'Bar, updated more than 1 year ago
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Question 1

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Cryptodires refer to animals who...
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  • retract head into shell by ending neck in S-shape
  • retract head into shell by bending neck horizontally
  • were thought to be extinct, but turned out to be extant
  • were thought to be extant, but turned out to be extinct

Question 2

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Traits of marine turtles include...
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  • cryptodires
  • pleurodires
  • carapace
  • scutes
  • breathe by forcing viscera upward to exhale, and inward to inhale
  • breathe by forcing diaphragm upward to exhale, and downward to inhale

Question 3

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How many species of marine turtles are there?
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  • 7
  • 9
  • 6
  • 10

Question 4

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Label the parts of the shell/turtle identifiers
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  • central scutes
  • lateral scutes
  • prefrontal scales
  • infra-marginal scutes
  • carapace
  • plastron

Question 5

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Turtles are long-lived and late maturing
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  • True
  • False

Question 6

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Turtle thermoregulation includes:
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  • basking
  • gigantothermy
  • counter-current circulation
  • thick layer of fat

Question 7

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Turtles are very social creatures, and aggregate in large groups
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  • True
  • False

Question 8

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Which are common predators for turtle hatchlings?
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  • ghost crabs
  • sea birds
  • mammals
  • large sharks
  • killer whales
  • feral dogs
  • humans

Question 9

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Which are common predators for adult turtles?
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  • large sharks
  • killer whales
  • feral dogs
  • humans
  • ghost crabs
  • sea birds
  • mammals

Question 10

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Caretta caretta is the formal name for the...
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  • Loggerhead Sea Turtle
  • Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
  • Olive Ridley Sea Turtle
  • Hawksbill Sea Turtle

Question 11

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Check all that apply to the Loggerhead Sea Turtle:
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  • reddish carapace
  • large head and heavy jaws
  • elongate shells, with serrated ridges on rear
  • circumglobal range, estuaries and salt water, tropical to subtropical waters
  • diet: molluscs, sponges, crabs
  • gray, olive, or yellowish carapace, hearth-shaped, compact
  • Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico
  • diet: crustaceans, molluscs, sea urchins, fish

Question 12

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Lepidochelys kempsii is the formal name for the...
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  • Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
  • Loggerhead Sea Turtle
  • Olive Ridley Sea Turtle
  • Flatback Sea Turtle

Question 13

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Check all that apply to the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
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  • gray, olive, or yellowish carapace, heart-shaped, compact
  • Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico
  • Diet: crustaceans, molluscs, sea urchins, fish
  • Circumtropical Pacific and Indian Oceans, Eastern Atlantic, S. Caribbean...
  • Diet: molluscs, sponges, crabs
  • Elongate shells, with seerrated ridges on rear

Question 14

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Lepidochelys olivacea is the common name for the
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  • Olive Ridley Sea Turtle
  • Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
  • Flatback Sea Turtle
  • Hawksbill Sea Turtle

Question 15

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Check all that apply to the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle
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  • olive to yellowish carapace, heart-shaped, flattened
  • Range: Circumtropical Pacific and Indian Oceans, eastern Atlantic, S. Caribbean...
  • arribada or solitary nesting
  • Diet: jellies, crustaceans, sea urchins, fish
  • chestnut brown shell wit black and yellow tortoiseshell markings, ragged rear edges
  • Circmtropical waters, coral reefs
  • Diet: sponges

Question 16

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Eretmochelys imbricata is the formal name for the...
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  • Hawksbill Sea Turtle
  • Loggerhead Sea Turtle
  • Green Sea Turtle
  • Leatherback Sea Turtle

Question 17

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Check all that apply to the hawksbill sea turtle
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  • chestnut brown shell with black and yellow tortoiseshell markings, carapace ragged rear edges
  • scutes overlap slightly
  • Circumtropical waters, coral reefs
  • Diet: Sponges
  • flattened carapace, olive green to gray
  • Australia
  • Diet: soft corals, sea cucumbers, crustaceans, mollusks, sometimes sea grass

Question 18

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Natator depressus is the the formal name for the...
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  • Flatback sea turtle
  • Hawksbill Sea Turtle
  • Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
  • Leatherback Sea Turtle

Question 19

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Check all that apply to the Flatback Sea Turtle
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  • Flattened carapace, olive green to gray
  • Australia
  • Diet: soft corals, sea cucumbers, crustaceans, mollusks, sometimes sea grass
  • Olive brown, flecked to mottled markings
  • Circumtropical to subtropical
  • Diet: seagrass, algae, invertebrates

Question 20

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Chelonia mydas is the formal name for the...
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  • Green Sea Turtle
  • Olive Ridley Sea Turtle
  • Hawksbill Sea Turtle
  • Leatherback Sea Turtle

Question 21

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Check all that apply to the Green Sea Turtle
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  • Olive brown, flecked to mottled markings
  • single claw on front flippers, serrated lower jaw
  • Circumtropical to subtropical
  • Diet: seagrass, algae, invertebrates
  • flattened carapace, olive green to gray
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Diet: jellyfish, salps, pyrosomes

Question 22

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Dermochelys coriacea is the formal name for the...
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  • Leatherback Sea Turtle
  • Loggerhead Sea Turtle
  • Hawksbill Sea Turtle
  • Green Sea Turtle

Question 23

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Check all that apply to the Leatherback Sea Turtle
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  • Highly modified carapace
  • Cosmopolitan range
  • bluish back to dark gray
  • endothermy
  • diet: jellyfish, salps, pyrosomes
  • diet: sagrass, algae, invertebrates
  • Circumtropical to subtropical

Question 24

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Amblyrhynchus cristatus is the formal name for the...
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  • Marine Iguana
  • American Alligator
  • Hawksbill Sea Turtle
  • Green Sea Turtle

Question 25

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Subfamily Hydrophiinae is home to the...
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  • sea snakes and kraits
  • crocodilians
  • marine iguana
  • turtles

Question 26

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Check all that apply to sea snakes and kraits
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  • paddle-like tails, laterally compressed bodies
  • venomous
  • respiration across skin and salt excretion in sublingual glands
  • diet: fish and octopods
  • ovoviviparous
  • amphibious
  • Diet: crustaceans and mollusks

Question 27

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Crocodilians have temperature-dependent sex determination
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  • True
  • False

Question 28

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Crocodilians have little to no parental care
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  • True
  • False

Question 29

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Crocodilians utilize what kind of predation?
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  • lie-in-wait
  • chase
  • bait
  • ambush

Question 30

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Crocodylus acutus is the formal name for the...
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  • American Crocodile
  • Saltwater Crocodile
  • Marine Iguana
  • Green Sea Turtle

Question 31

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Check all that apply to the American Crocodile
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  • gray-green to olive, narrow head profile
  • Extreme S. Florida and FL Keys
  • Diet: fish, crabs, birds, turtles, snakes, small mammals
  • Diet: opportunistic predators, pythons
  • dark gray to black, broad head profile and rounded snout
  • North Carolina to FL Keys to Gulf Coast

Question 32

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Alligator mississippiensis is the formal name for the...
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  • American Alligator
  • American Crocodile
  • Saltwater Crocodile
  • Marine Iguana

Question 33

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Check all that apply to the American Alligator
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  • dark gray to black, borad head profile and rounded snout
  • North Carolina to FL Keys to Gulf Coast
  • Diet: opportunistic predators, pythons
  • gray-green to olive, narrow head profile
  • Extreme S. Florida and FL Keys
  • Diet: fish, crabs, birds, turtles, snakes, small mammals
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