Adaptions
How they are made
General
General
Adaptions 2
100
special features on an animal that help it survive are ________ .
What are adaptions?
100
This is formed when a dead plant or animal is buried and, many years, hardens into rock.
What is a fossil?
100
Scientists learn about dinosaurs by _____________ .
What is "reconstructing dinosaur skeletons"?
100
we covered a _______ to show a cast or mold fossil in class
What is shell?
100
The size of a dinosaur's teeth tell you what it probably ____
What is "ate"?
200
Flat, wide teeth likely means that the animal was a _______ eater.
What is plant?
200
Most fossils are found in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
The imprint fossil that we made in class was of a _______ .
What is a leaf?
200
most fossils are ____________ (invertebrate or vertebrate)
What is invertebrate?
200
An adaption for a meat eater.
What are long, sharp teeth?
300
The part of body scientists study to find out what the animal ate is ________.
What are teeth?
300
Fossils that were once shells and/or water plants were probably at one time in rock found...
What is at the bottom of a large body of water?
300
The trace fossil that we made in class was of a ________ .
What is a footprint?
300
when a fossil is found unaltered and completely intact, you have found this kind of fossil
What is a preserved fossil?
300
The scientist concluded that because the dinosaur stood on two feet that it could probably run __________ . (slow or fast)
What is fast?
400
A dinosaur with spikes all over its back suggest ________ .
What is the dinosaur could defend itself well?
400
many layers of mud bury an animal that has died is one way that a ________ is formed
What is a fossil?
400
If a dinosaur was slow-moving, it was probably _________ .
What is heavy or weighed a lot?
400
Freezing and Amber
What are two ways fossils are preserved?
400
Define adaption?
What are special features that help an animal survive in its environment?
500
Long, pointy horns on a dinosaur mean that it probably ate ________ .
What is one can't tell what a dinosaur ate by long, pointy horns?
500
fossils can be created when tree sap called ______ cover the dead plant or animal.
What is amber?
500
Scientists inferred that the dinosaur was large and slow because the trace fossil was ___________
What is deep and wide?
500
when one finds a bone or a piece of wood that feels like rock, most likely ______________ has taken place.
What is mineral replacement?
500
Scientists knew that the dinosaur fossil belonged to a dinosaur that could swim because of __________.
What is "the fossil had arms and legs like paddles"?
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