8.3- Reptiles

The most numerous reptiles are snakes.

• true

• false-lizards

The largest of all lizards is the skink.

• true

• false- Komodo dragon

Lizards have the ability to change colors due to special color-containing cells called chromatophores.

• true

• false

The lizard that has an immovable, transparent eye covering is the chameleon.

• true

• false- gecko

The type of snake movement in which the snake's body resembles an accordion is rectilinear movement.

• true

• false- concertina

best-known elapids

• cobras

• blind snakes

• colubrids

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most common elapids of North and South America

• coral snakes

• blind snakes

• cobras

largest group of snakes 

• kraits

• constrictors

• colubrids

slow-moving snakes that coil around and squeeze their prey 

• colubrids

• constrictors

• kraits

world's smallest snakes

• blind snakes

• kraits

• coral snakes