What does the word "dinosaur" mean?
Terrible lizard
Name a well-known meat-eating dinosaur that starts with the letter T.
T-Rex
Were more dinosaurs herbivores (plants-eaters), carnivores (meat-eaters), or omnivores (eating both plants and meat)?
Herbivores
Fact or Fiction: Some dinosaurs had feathers.
Fact
Name a plant-eating dinosaur with three horns on its head.
Triceratops
Everything we know about dinosaurs comes from looking at these.
Fossils
Fact or Fiction: Tyrannosaurus Rex lived in the Jurassic period.
Fiction. (T-Rex lived in the Cretaceous period)
During the Triassic Period, 245 million years ago, the Earth consisted of only a single continent. What was the name of this continent?
Pangaea
Dinosaurs belonged to which group of animals?
A) Reptiles
B) Amphibians
C) Mammals
A) Reptiles
What probably caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? A) hunting by people B) disease C) wind storms D) an asteroid colliding with the Earth
D) An asteroid colliding with the Earth
Were there any flying dinosaurs?
No. (Dinosaurs lived their entire lives on land. There were a lot of flying reptiles that lived at the same time the dinosaurs did such as the Pterodactyl.)
The smallest dinosaur yet discovered - the Compsognathus - was the size of what farm animal?
A chicken
Which dinosaur's name means "speedy thief"?
Velociraptor (could run about 60 km/hr for short bursts)
At the end of the Jurassic period, the land on Earth started to split up into smaller continents because of what 2 types of natural disasters? (Examples: hurricane, avalanche)
Volcanoes and earthquakes.