

Tuesday, April 21, 2009


These are too easy!! :) Almost everyone got it right again except for you know who!! It seems like he and family need to leave Florida for a visit to SA so that I can educate him. LOL!! Notice, I mentioned no names!! LOL!!

Thanks for playing everyone (even the guy from Florida. :)

Although the word turtle is widely used to describe all members of the order Testudines, it is also common to see certain members described as terrapins, tortoises or sea turtles as well. Precisely how these alternative names are used, if at all, depends on the type of English being used.


American English tends to use the word turtle for all freshwater species, as well as for certain land-dwelling species (e.g. box turtles). Oceanic species are usually referred to as sea turtles, and tortoise is restricted to members of the true tortoise family, Testudinidae. The name terrapin is typically reserved only for the brackish water diamondback terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin; the word terrapin being derived from the Algonquian word for this animal.
