SOLUTION TO EXERCISES: LESSON 1
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injured, trapped, or somehow disturbed.
(para 1-1)
2.
breeding season.
(para 1-1)
3.
Gila monster and beaded lizard.
(para 1-2a)
4.
They have grooved teeth and venom glands.
(para 1-2a)
5.
In the southwestern part of the U.S. and in Mexico.
(para 1-2a)
6.
Cobra, mamba, krait, coral, and venomous snakes of Australia.
(para 1-2c)
7.
Corals.
(para 1-2c)
8.
Eastern, Texas, Arizona, or Sonoran.
(para 1-2c)
9.
Neurotoxic and potent.
(para 1-2c)
10.
Bodied, heads, blotches or cross bands.
(para 1-2e)
11.
Moccasins, new world pit vipers, bushmasters, massasaugas and pygmy
rattlesnakes. (para 1-2e)
12.
Rattlesnakes, moccasins, and copperheads.
(para 1-3)
13.
From the deep pit between the eye and nostril on each side of the head.
(para 1-3)
14.
It lives in dry desert areas, grassy plains, forests, and in rocky areas.
(para 1-4)
15.
Yes, by its rattles.
(para 1-4)
16.
In the southern Mississippi Valley states eastward to Florida.
(para 1-4b)
17.
When the cottonmouth becomes excited, it coils its head back with its mouth open
and reveals the white inside, its mouth (hence "cottonmouth"). (para 1-4b)
18.
In the eastern half of the U.S. from Texas to the east coast.
(para 1-4c)
19.
Its length is from 2 to 4 feet long and its head is the color of copper or reddish
brown with an hourglass shape on its back. (para 1-4c)
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