People and Living Things
This dinosaur lived on the island of Madagascar 65 million years ago
What is the Majungasaurus?
The item that separated Mr. G's classroom from the 6 students who traveled back in time to the time of dinosaurs
What is a plastic sheet?
An event that triggers the dying off of any amount of species
What is an extinction?
Another word that describes bubble gum exploding
What is popping?
Another word for an educated guess, or theory that hasn't yet been tested.
What is a hypothesis?
The species of animal that almost got Zara (or was it her bubble gum?). Luckily, Tansy came to the rescue!
What is the devil frog?
The items that students use to study key words to become Earth scholars.
What are flashcards?
When a handful of species die off at a time, over a long course of Earth's history.
What is a background extinction?
A word that means to use facts to show something is true
What is prove?
The first step of the scientific method (What caused the K-T Extinction)
What is asking a question?
The boy who's dad is a research scientist. Also known as the "dino guy"
Who is Max?
The twisting phenomenon that took the kids from the classroom back in time to 66 million years in the past.
What is a vortex?
An event that happened nearly 65 million years ago and involved a massive asteroid striking Earth near current day Mexico, triggering the mass extinction of dinosaur species and nearly 75% of plant and animal species
What is the K-T Extinction?
A word that describes a landform that has its own government. There are 195 of these across our world.
What is a country?
Scientists have to do this over and over again (repeatedly) to make sure they have enough information to form a conclusion. (Walter Alvarez and team looked closely at samples of earth and discovered metal found in asteroids)
What is test?
The thing that crashed into Earth and triggered the K-T Extinction
What is an asteroid?
Africa, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, and North America are examples of these.
What are continents?
The important day, or event that is happening when The Parallel Universe story begins
What is the first day of school?
What is an ocean?
The final step in the scientific method ( The K-T extinction was triggered by a massive asteroid striking earth)
What is drawing a conclusion?
The scientist who discovered metal found in asteroids deep in the Earth. This discovery helped confirm the theory that an asteroid had struck Earth.
Who is Walter Alvarez?
The island off the east coast of Africa. Where our story is set.
What is Madagascar?
What is 2100?
A word that describes the "kinds" or "types" of living things. For example: cats, bear, fish
What is a species?