When you have finished answering all of the questions, print this page to save your answers. Then click on the button at the bottom of the page to check your answers. The desert iguana is shy of very high temperatures and therefore is rarely seen during a summer day. True False Gopher snakes are often mistaken for rattlesnakes. True False Rattlesnakes lay between 2 and 10 eggs a year.
Some mother rattlesnakes care for their young after they are born.
Male and female tarantulas look alike when they are young and continue to look alike when they become adults. Desert tarantulas are very aggressive and are easily provoked. A tarantula's normal life span is about 2 years. Tarantulas, like snakes, molt by crawling out of their outer skins and leaving them behind. Scorpions are arthropods with six legs and stingers on the ends of their tails.