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The Mesozoic Era
Fun Facts
Name That Dino!
Extinction
100

This name means "Three Horned Face".

What is a Triceratops?

100

This is the shortest period of the Mesozoic Era.

What is the Triassic Period?

100

Dinosaurs have been found in all of these places.

What are all seven continents?

100

I lived in the Jurrassic period, I have a brain the size of a walnut, I walk on four legs and I am a herbivore.

What is Stegosaurus?

100

The meteor believed to have wiped out the Dinosaurs landed on this continent.

What is Central America?

200

This name means "Tyrant Lizard King".

What is a Tyrannosaurus?

200

This is the longest period of the Mesozoic Era.

What is the Cretaceous Period?

200

Roughly this many Dinosaur species have been found.

What is 700?

200

I lived in the middle Jurassic, I was one of the first Dinosaurs discovered, I am a theropod and also a carnivore.

What is a Megalosaurus?


200

The dinosaurs disappeared off the face of the planet this many years ago.

What is 65 million years?

300

This name means "Big Lizard".

What is a Megalosaurus?

300

The Cretaceous period lasted around this long.

What is 80 million years?

300

The Triceratops were mistaken for this animal when first found.

What are bison?

300

I am the largest Dinosaur ever found, I am a sauropod, and I eat plants.

What is the Argentinosaurs?

300

True or False:

The Dinosaurs were wiped out by the meteor alone.

False, the effects of the like forest fires and tsunamis wiped them out mainly.

400

This Name means "Broad Lizard".

What is a Plateosaurus?

400

The Triassic period came right after this period.

What is Permian Period?

400

This Dinosaur had the brain the size of a walnut.

What is Stegosaurus?

400

I am a herbivore. I have a bone plated back, I have a club at the end of my tail.

What is Ankylosaurus?

400

This crater is believed to be the remains of the meteor the contributed to the dinosaur extinction.

What is Chicxulub Crater?

500

This name means "Dawn Robber".

What is Eoraptor?

500

The Dilophosaurus lived in this period.

What is the Jurassic Period? 

500

This Dinosaur was confirmed to have never existed.

What is Brontosaurus?

500

I am an omnivore, I run very fast, I am a theropod, I have two fingers.

What is Compsognathus?

500

Many Dinosaurs did this during the extinction to save their offspring.

What is burying their eggs?

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