Show:
Vocabulary
Triassic Period
Jurassic Period
Cretaceous Period
Miscellaneous
100
An animal hunted for food, especially by carnivores.
What is Prey?
100
35 million years.
What is the length of time the Triassic Period lasted?
100
205-138 years ago.
How long ago was the Jurassic Period?
100
Iguanodon, triceratops, and tyrannosaurus.
What were some dinosaurs alive in the Cretaceous Period?
100
Fossils.
What are remains of things that lived on the earth a long time ago?
200
An animal that eats meat.
What is a Carnivore?
200
Ferns, palm like trees, and conifers.
What are the plants alive during the Triassic Period?
200
Warm, but more moist.
What was the Jurassic Period climate like?
200
Hearty plants, flowering plants, oak and maple trees.
What were plants in the Cretaceous Period?
200
Extinct.
What is something that has died out and is no longer living?
300
Someone who studies and finds fossils.
Who is a Paleontologist?
300
Small mammals, frogs, tortoises, and early crocodiles.
What are animals that were alive during the Triassic Period?
300
The Atlantic Ocean begins to form between the continents.
What was one of the changes in the earth during the Jurassic Period?
300
Similar to how they look today.
How did the continents look in the Cretaceous Period?
300
The Mesozoic Era.
When did the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Period occur?
400
An animal that preys on (or hunts) other animals.
What is a Predator?
400
Pangaea.
What is a large landmass of the continents?
400
The bird.
What animal first appeared in the Jurassic Period?
400
Some of the changes in the earth during the Cretaceous Period.
What were cold winters, erupting volcanoes which formed the sea floor, and mountains forming?
400
A meteor struck the earth and destroyed everything.
What is one of the theories of why the dinosaurs are no longer alive?
500
An animal that feeds on grass and other plants.
What is an Herbivore?
500
The climate during the Triassic Period.
What was warm and dry?
500
Some famous dinosaurs that were alive in the Jurassic Period.
What were the Brachiosaurus and the Stegosaurus?
500
How long the Cretaceous Period lasted.
What was 75 million years?
500
October 12th.
When is the Dinosaur Project due?