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When was it?
How they lived
Dino discoveries
Fossils
On the job
100
This planet is 4.6 billion years old.
What is Earth?
100
Everything we know about dinosaurs comes from these.
What are fossils?
100
The word _______ is used for a species that is no longer living anywhere on Earth.
What is extinct?
100

Fossils show that this dinosaur had 3 horns. 

What is a triceratops?

100
Scientists put a _________ on each bone to identify it when they get back to the lab.
What is number?
200

This well-known animal evolved from dinosaurs. 

What are birds?

200
This is the word for a dinosaur or other animal that eats meat.
What is carnivore?
200
A dinosaur has a backbone, so it would be called a _______.
What is vertebrate?
200

Not all fossils were dinosaurs. This prehistoric animal has been found trapped in ice for millions of years.

What is a Wooley mammoth?

200
A cast made of __________ can be used to protect a fossil.
What is plaster?
300
This animal first arrived on Earth 225 million years ago.
What is dinosaur?
300
This is the word for a dinosaur or other animal that eats plants.
What is an herbivore?
300
If I discover a dinosaur footprint in the mud, I have discovered an ______________________.
What is imprint?
300
Sometimes a bone is a fossil, but an impression or track left in a soft surface can also be fossilized. What is this impression or track called?
What is imprint?
300
This type of scientist studies fossils.
What is paleontologist?
400
This animal was extinct 65 million years ago.
What is dinosaur?
400

This dinosaur protected itself from predators using it's long, spikey, tail.

What is a stegosaurous?
400

This continent is where the most fossils have been found.

What is North America?

400

Paleontologists discovered that this dinosaur had arms up to 3 feet long. 

What is a t-rex?

400
This word is used to describe digging up a fossil.
What is excavate?
500
The first _____________ arrived 3 million years ago.
What is human?
500

This dinosaur could eat 500 pounds of food in one bite. 

What is a t-rex?

500
We can determine a dinosaur's __________ by studying its footprints and stride length.
What is height?
500

Prehistoric bugs have been found trapped in a sticky tree sap substance known as what?

What is amber?

500
A paleontologist uses _________ when making a model or drawing that is smaller in size than the actual dinosaur.
What is scale?