General Knowledge
True or False
DINOSAURS!
Estimating
Miscellaneous
100
What is a fossil?
Bones or remains from an animal or plant from long ago
100
The average fossil weighs 200 - 400 pounds
False, it is around 500-700 pounds
100
This about when dinosaurs died out.
What is 65 million years ago?
100
How far down was the deepest fossil ever found
2256 meters below seabed
100
What do fossils represent?
That all species are related to one another.
200
Who studies fossils?
Who studies fossils?
200
Fossils are used for fuel
True
200
These are possible reasons that dinosaurs became extinct.
What is: 1. giant asteroid hit earth which changed the climate 2. many huge volcanoes erupted creating a cloud of smoke dust and ash which blocked the sunlight
200
How old is the largest fossil found
160 to 100 million years ago
200
How old is the oldest fossil ever discovered?
Around 3.5 billion years old.
300
People use this to find out how old fossils are
What is carbon dating?
300
Fossils can provide proof of climate change on Earth.
True
300
What dinosaur fossil is this?
Allosaurus
300
How old is the smallest fossil ever found
99 million years old
300
The oldest discovered fossils is of this organism
What is cyanobacteria?
400
These rocks are where fossils are most likely formed
What are sedimentary rocks?
400
Plants fossils don't exist.
false
400
Dinosaur bones are this type of fossil.
What are petrified or replacement fossils?
400
How small is the smallest fossil, Oculudentavis khaungraae?(Previously thought to be a dinosaur, scientists now think it is a lizard)
7.5–13 cm (3–5 in) in length
400
These are reasons why studying fossils is important.
What are ways to know about the past, see how the earth has changed, and learn about earth's history?
500
Fossil teeth can tell you what
The size of the animal and what it ate.
500
Dinosaurs are the most common fossils found.
What is true?
500
These are things that dinosaurs of the past and reptiles of today have in common.
What are the same rib structure, four legs, scaly skin, and hatch from eggs?
500
How big is Maximo, the world's largest dinosaur fossil?
122 feet across and stands 38 feet tall at the head.
500
What can a fossil on top of a mountain tell you?
It used to be underwater.