Dinosaurs!

Name that Dinosaur

100

Which dinosaur's name means 'Tyrant Lizard King'?

Tyrannosaurus rex

200

Triceratops 

Triceratops was one of the last of the non-avian dinosaurs to evolve and is among the most common dinosaur fossils found by paleontologists. 

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300

Velociraptor

A swift and agile predator whose name means “quick plunderer,” Velociraptor was no more than six feet long and weighed less than 100 pounds.

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400

Pachycephalosaurus 

500

Parasaurolophus

The crest of Parasaurolophus contained a series of tubes that connected the nostrils to the trachea (windpipe). The function of the crest is not widely agreed upon by scientists, but some speculate it was used to make a honking noise.

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Carnivore or Herbivore

100

True or false? Most plant eating dinosaurs had sharp, jagged teeth.

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False.

Herbivores had peg-like teeth to rake or slice leaves from trees. Carnivorous dinosaurs had sharp teeth to tear into prey.

200

Carnivore.

While it had a similar look to Tyrannosaurus rex, Allosaurus had more-developed forelimbs that were used for grasping prey.

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300

Herbivore.

Iguanodon provided some of the earliest dinosaur fossils found by scientists, discovered before the term dinosaur was coined. In 1822 Gideon and Mary Ann Mantell found giant fossilized teeth, which they thought resembled those of an iguana, and gave the creature a name that means “iguana tooth.”

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400

What kind of carnivore eats fish?

A. Eggavore

B. Piscivore

C. Tyrannosaur 

D. Insectavore

B. Piscivore

500

Trick question! The Ornithomimus was an omnivore.

The legs, feet, and long slender neck of Ornithomimus, whose name means “bird mimic,” have a superficial resemblance to those of an ostrich.

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Fun Facts

100

When the first dinosaur bones were discovered in China about 2,000 years ago, people thought they were:

A. chicken bones

B. dragon bones

C. Tiger bones

D. Panda bones

B. Dragon bones

200

On which continent have the most dinosaur fossils been found?

A. Antarctica

B. North America

C. Africa

D. Asia

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B. North America

300

Brachiosaurus chowed down on the treetops.  About how tall was this necky dino?

A. 11 feet, about as tall as a Jeep

B. 20 feet, about as tall as a 2-story building

C. 40 feet, taller than 2 giraffes

D. 500 feet, almost as tall as Washington, D.C.'s Washington Monument

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C. 40 feet, taller than 2 giraffes

400

What is the scientific word for fossilized dinosaur droppings?

A. Doodicus

B. Streptococcus

C. Coprolite

D. Giganto stink

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C. Coprolite

500

What is this fossil called?

Trilobites are a group of extinct marine arthropods that first appeared around 521 million years ago, shortly after the beginning of the Cambrian period. Today trilobite fossils are found all over the world.

What were trilobites? | Oxford University Museum of Natural History  

Misc. Questions

100

A person who studies fossils and prehistoric life such as dinosaurs is known as a what?

Paleontologist

200

How can we find out if a dinosaur was a carnivore or herbivore? 

A. Coprolite (feces)

B. Fossils

C. Watch dinosaur movies

D. Go back in time

B. Fossils.

If the skull has powerful jaws and long, sharp teeth, then the dinosaur was most probably a meat-eater, a carnivore. The teeth were used to rip apart meat. Wide, flat teeth with ridges indicate that the dinosaur was a plant-eater, a herbivore. The teeth were used to mash and grind tough vegetation. 

What Teeth Tell Us | AMNH

300

This fish survived the mass extinction of dinosaurs. What is it's name?

A. Catfish

B. Coelacanth 

C. Relicanth

D. Anorith

Coelacanths (seel-a-canths) were once known only from fossils and were thought to have gone extinct approximately 65 million years ago (mya), during the great extinction in which the dinosaurs disappeared. The most recent fossil record dates from about 80 mya but the earliest records date back as far as approximately 360 mya. At one time coelacanths were a large group comprising about 90 valid species that were distributed worldwide in both marine and freshwaters. Today, there are two known living species.

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400

Which of these had the biggest wingspan? 

A. They all have the same wingspan

B. Pteranodon

C. Quetzalacoatlus

D. Dimorphodon

C. Quetzalacoatlus

Quetzalocoatlus had a grand wingspan of 15 metres. A student, Douglas Lawson, discovered quetzalcoatlus' bones in the Big Bend National Park, Texas, in 1971. Pteranodon had a wingspan of 7 metres. Pteranodon had a long crest on its head, which may have worked as a rudder during flight. Dimorphodon was very small and only had a wingspan of between 1.2 and 2.5 metres. Palaeontologists think that it lived and hunted along seashores and rivers.

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500

What was the first known flying bird?

A. Archaeopteryx

B. Gastornis

C. Pteranodon

D. Caudipteryx

Archaeopteryx is the first known flying bird, but it would not have been a very efficient flyer because of its primitive skeleton and long tail. The chick of the hoatzin bird, which lives in Venezuela and Guyana, has claws on each wing that are very similar to archaeopteryx's. It uses them to climb and cling onto trees. 

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Fact or Fiction

100

True or false? Some dinosaurs were the size of turkeys.

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True.

Some small dinosaur species were small enough to hold in your hand; others were taller than houses.

200

True or false? Modern-day birds are descendants of two-legged, meat-eating dinosaurs.

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True!

Birds are descendants of dinosaurs called theropods.

300

True or false?

Dinosaurs with long horns and neck frills belonged to a group called the ceratopsians.

True!

400

True or false?

Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent of Earth. 

True. Scientists have found plant fossils, and this dinosaur called Cryolophosaurus ellioti in 1990-1991; a new species to paleontology!

500

True or false? The Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus existed in the same period.

False.

The Jurassic dinosaur Stegosaurus had already been extinct for approximately 80 million years before the appearance of the Cretaceous dinosaur Tyrannosaurus.

Did all the dinosaurs live together, and at the same time? | U.S. Geological Survey (usgs.gov)