what is reptile?

Answer 1

A reptile is an animal that is cold blooded and loves to kill. HA (mook)

Answer 2

A reptile a type of animal that is ectothermic- or cold-blooded- which means they can hardly generate their own heat and cannot maintain a constant body temperature. This makes reptiles active when the temperature is warm and slow down when it is cool or cold.
Reptiles are all land dwellers and must live in dry/ mild climates (amphibians like frogs are not reptiles) and also have thick dry skin that makes the animal water tight so water cannot be lost through evaporation. Unlike frogs who can breathe through their skin, reptiles must breathe relying entirely on their lungs.
Reptiles also have amniotic eggs- eggs surrounded by a shell which protects the embryo inside. The amniotic egg is designed for land, and a dry enviorment. This is why crocodiles, alligators, and sea turtles move to land to lay their eggs.

==MAIN TYPES OF REPTILES==
Turtles/Tortoises
Crocodiles/ Alligators
Lizards
Snakes

Answer 3

Reptiles are tetrapods and amniotes, animals whose embryos are surrounded by an amniotic membrane. Today they are represented by four surviving orders.

Though all cellular metabolism produces some heat, most modern species of reptiles do not generate enough to maintain a constant body temperature and are thus referred to as "cold-blooded" or ectothermic (the Leatherback Sea Turtle is an exception). Instead, they rely on gathering and losing heat from the environment to regulate their internal temperature, e.g, by moving between sun and shade, or by preferential circulation like moving warmed blood into the body core, while pushing cool blood to the periphery. In their natural habitats, most species are adept at this, and can usually maintain core body temperatures within a fairly narrow range, comparable to that of mammals and birds, the two surviving groups of "warm-blooded" animals.

From the classical standpoint, reptiles included all the amniotes except birds and mammals. Thus reptiles were defined as the set of animals that includes crocodiles, alligators, tuatara, lizards, snakes, amphisbaenians and turtles, grouped together as the class Reptilia (Latin repere, "to creep"). This is still the usual definition of the term.

Answer 4

A cold blooded animal with scales.

Answer 5

A repitle is a cold-blooded animal with scales as covering for its skin. ie snakesand lizards

Answer 6

It is a cold blooded creature characterized by having scales attached to it's skin.

Answer 7

Cold-blooded scaly animals. Contrary to popular belief. reptles do NOT neccessarily lay eggs.

Answer 8

lizards, snakes, tortoises, turtles and more are reptiles and they are all cold blooded and scaly creatures.

Answer 9

cold blooded animal which has scales and lay egg