Fossils
What do we call the prints or remains of plants and animals that lived long ago?
A. Minerals
B. Fossils
C. Crystals
D. Artifacts
What are fossils?
The largest meat eating dinosaur was _______ ____________
What is the Tyrannosaurus?
Animals that are no longer living on Earth are called:
A. Endangered
B. Extinct
C. Fossils
D. Ancient
What is extinct?
What do we call scientists who study fossils?
A. Biologists
B. Paleontologists
C. Archaeologists
D. Geologists
Correct Answer: B. Paleontologists
Dinosaurs __________________ in length and height.
A. varied greatly
B. were all very small
C. were all the same size
D. only grew to two feet
Correct Answer: A. varied greatly
What are the hard parts of animals, like shells, teeth, and bones, commonly called?
A. Organs
B. Fossils
C. Skeletons
D. Body parts
C. Skeletons
Scientists do not know this for sure about dinosaurs:
A. Their size
B. Their exact colors
C. Their fossils
D. Their bones
Correct Answer: B. Their exact colors
What does the word "dinosaur" mean?
A. Giant lizard
B. Terrible lizard
C. Ancient reptile
D. Fierce monster
Correct Answer: B. Terrible lizard
Scientists think dinosaurs were colors that would ___________ in their environment.
A. stand out
B. camouflage
C. glow
D. change daily
Correct Answer: B. camouflage
We look at fossils of these to know what dinosaurs looked like.
A. Trees
B. Footprints
C. Skeletons
D. Volcanoes
C. Skeletons
Which dinosaur used its spiked tail to defend itself?
A. Tyrannosaurus rex
B. Stegosaurus
C. Triceratops
D. Brachiosaurus
What is the Stegosaurus?
What may have hit the Earth causing a large explosion and contributing to the extinction of the dinosaurs?
A. A giant volcano
B. An asteroid
C. A massive earthquake
D. A solar flare
Correct Answer: B. An asteroid
Dinosaurs are this kind of animal:
A. Mammals
B. Reptiles
C. Birds
D. Amphibians
Correct Answer: B. Reptiles
We know what dinosaurs ate by looking at fossils of these.
What are dinosaur teeth?
The thumb claw bone of which dinosaur was once thought to be a horn?
A. Velociraptor
B. Iguanodon
C. Allosaurus
D. Ankylosaurus
What is the Iguanodon?
If the sun is blocked by dust this would happen to the plants, and then the animals too.
What is they would die?
Dinosaur fossils have been discovered on which part of the Earth?
A. Only in North America
B. Only in Africa
C. On every continent
D. Only in Asia
Correct Answer: C. On every continent
These kinds of fossils are imprints of animals that lived long ago, like dinosaur footprints.
A. Body fossils
B. Trace fossils
C. Petrified fossils
D. Sedimentary fossils
What are trace fossils?
Which of the following dinosaurs was tiny, only about two feet long?
A. Tyrannosaurus rex
B. Brachiosaurus
C. Compsognathus
D. Stegosaurus
What is Compsognathus?
Many Christian scientists think that this may have caused the dinosaurs to go extinct:
A. A global flood
B. An asteroid impact
C. Climate change
D. Disease
Correct Answer: A. A global flood
Dinosaurs lived during the:
A. Ice Age
B. Mesozoic Era
C. Paleozoic Era
D. Cenozoic Era
Correct Answer: B. Mesozoic Era