The agile lizard and the scaly order
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Write 4 adaptations in a lizard’s external structure.
Camouflage colour; third eyelid; eardrum; horny scales that prevent drying out on land.
2
Compare how a lizard and a frog breathe.
The frog uses lungs and skin; the lizard uses only a more complex lung.
3
What do you do if you meet a snake in the desert? Write 3 sentences.
I stop, step back slowly and do not touch it; I tell adults.
4
Write one sentence each about the gecko and the monitor lizard.
The gecko is a small night insect-eating lizard; the monitor is a big desert lizard.