Back to Top Click on any of the vocabulary words below to hear them pronounced and used in a sentence. A transparent scale that covers the eyes of snakes. A snake s brill becomes milky white in appearance, clouding its eyes, when the snake is ready to slough its skin. A snake uses its Jacobson s organ to literally taste the air. Active at night.
Nocturnal snakes prefer to do their hunting after the sun goes down.
The process by which a snake crawls out of its skin, enabling it to grow larger. A snake often rubs up against a rough rock to begin the process of sloughing its skin. A protein mixture made in modified salivary glands that destroys body tissue or attacks the nerve or muscle tissue of prey. The venom of some snakes can do incredible damage to unsuspecting prey. Vocabulary Quiz Whiz Create a variety of interesting quizzes to test your students' word power.