Reptiles

Start with reptile characteristics

The Reptiles mind map introduces features such as lungs and scales alongside groups including lizards, snakes, crocodiles and alligators. Start there if you want an overview. Follow its branches and use the group names to organize what you have read. The page also lists other mind maps on reptile characteristics, so you can look at the topic in more than one format.

For another view of the groups, open the flowchart on the main types of reptiles. It covers chelonians, crocodilians and squamates, with details such as the beak of a chelonian.

Move from maps to quizzes

After studying a map, try a Reptiles quiz. One listed quiz introduces the shelled egg in relation to life on land. Another covers scales and ectothermy and names turtles, tuatara, crocodiles, lizards and snakes. Choose the one that matches what you have just studied.

Use your answers to decide what to look at again. You can return to a map, find the relevant branch and put the idea into your own words before taking the quiz again.

Practice with flashcards

The page includes a flashcard deck on amniotes and lizards. Its prompts cover amniote characteristics, extra embryonic membranes and the benefits of a shelled egg. Use it after the introductory resources if you want to work through those terms.

For species practice, look at the flashcards on UK reptile species, then try UK Reptile Species Questions. The page also has a flashcard deck that lists reptiles by order, family and scientific name.

Use the page within the unit

Reptiles is a section of the Vertebrates unit in Biology and natural sciences. Use the maps, quizzes and flashcards here to organize your study of this section. Then choose a resource that suits the feature or group you want to practice next.