Alberta Dinos
Film Features
Dinosaur Life
Folklore
Name that Dino
100

Name of the first dinosaur fossil found in Alberta

(Bonus: Who found it?)

Albertosaurus, by Joseph Burr Tyrrell 

100

Movie that Arlo and Spot are from

The Good Dinosaur

100

Dinosaurs that only ate plants are called what?

Herbivores

100

Before paleontology, dinosaur fossils found in Europe and China were often believed to be what mythological creatures

Dragons

100

Name one of the most popular types of dinosaurs

T-Rex, triceratops, stegosaurus, velociraptor, brachiosaurus, spinosaurus, hadrosaur 

200

What type of dinosaur is the Edmontosaurus?

Hadrosaur/Duck-Billed dinosaur

200

1988 movie that follows the story of Cera, Spike, Duckie, Petrie, and Little Foot

The Land Before Time

200

True or False: Dinosaurs laid eggs

True

200

The ancient marine reptile that the Loch Ness Monster supposedly looks like

Plesiosaur

200

A dinosaur with three horns on their head

Triceratops

300

A fish found in Alberta that is considered a living fossil

Sturgeon

300

The Name of the T-Rex in Toy Story

Rex

300

True or False: Some dinosaurs had feathers

True

300

What fossils found in limestone cliffs along the Mediterranean Sea influenced folklore about sea serpents?

Mosasaur, plesiosaur, & ichthyosaurus 

300

This dinosaur is the king of the tyrant lizards

Tyrannosaurus Rex

400

Where the first dinosaurs were found in Alberta

(Bonus: when?)

Red Deer river valley near present-day Drumheller on August 12, 1884


400

A famous movie with dinosaurs in the kitchen

Jurassic Park

400

Two modern animals that dinosaurs are most closely related to

Crocodiles and birds

400

A North American Folklore creature that was likely influenced by pterosaur fossil records

Thunderbird (Navajo, Hopi, Sioux, Lakota)

400

This dinosaur had armour all over its body and a large clubbed tail

Ankylosaurus

500

A dinosaur found in western Canada that is the best represented tyrannosaurid in the fossil record

Gorgosaurus

500

The kind of dinosaurs that Owen Grady trains in Jurassic Park

Velociraptor

500

What modern creature existed even before the dinosaurs came to be

Sharks

500

Australian Aboriginal folklore about massive creatures from the time before humans was influenced by this type of fossil record

Fossilized dinosaur footprints

500

'dinosaur' that went extinct 40 million years before true dinosaurs even existed

Dimetrodon