Earl Bassett: What kind of fuse is that?
Burt Gummer: Cannon fuse.
Earl Bassett: What the hell you use it for?
Burt Gummer: My cannon.
Val: Attention, Mr. Bassett. This is your wake-up call. Please move your ass.
Burt Gummer: Food for five years. Thousand gallons of gas. Air filtration. Water filtration. Geiger counter. Bomb shelter. Underground goddamn monsters.
Answer: They officially name the creatures "graboids", as that's also what they call them in later films. Tremors is just a clever movie name, and "snakeoids" was just one of the potential names the chinese guy and the kid were thinking of naming them.
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