Dinosaur Times
How long did dinosaurs live on Earth?
Millions of years
What do some dinosaurs eat instead of meat?
Plants
What do scientists study to find out how dinosaurs lived and what they looked like?
Dinosaur bones
What is the most famous dinosaur in the text?
T-Rex
How long was the T-Rex, in metres?
14 metres
How many years ago did dinosaurs disappear?
65 million years ago
What do some other dinosaurs eat instead of plants?
Meat
When scientists study bones, what two things do they want to know about dinosaurs?
How they lived and what they looked like
Did T-Rex eat plants or meat?
Meat
How high was the T-Rex, in metres?
5.5 metres
What hit Earth, according to some scientists, and helped make dinosaurs disappear?
A large rock called an asteroid
How many legs did some dinosaurs walk on?
Two legs
What part of a dinosaur’s body is missing, so no one knows their colours?
Their skin
What part of the T-Rex helped it move quickly?
Its strong tail
How long were the T-Rex’s teeth, in centimetres?
36 centimetres
What happened to Earth’s temperature after the asteroid hit?
It became much colder
How many legs did other dinosaurs walk on?
Four legs
Because no dinosaur skin is left, what two things about dinosaurs does no one know?
Their colour and their pattern
Where can you see T-Rex skeletons today?
In some museums
The T-Rex was bigger than what kind of building?
A house
Why was there no longer any food for the dinosaurs after the asteroid hit?
Because Earth became much colder and food stopped growing
Besides walking, what are two other ways some dinosaurs lived or moved, according to the text?
Some could fly and others lived in the sea
What is one thing about T-Rex that no one knows from the text?
How fast it could run
What is T-Rex’s full name?
Tyrannosaurus Rex
There were more than how many different types of dinosaur?
More than 700