Fossils
These are remains of living things from long ago.
What are fossils?
This dinosaur was one of the largest meat-eaters.
What is Tyrannosaurus rex?
Scientists who study fossils are called these.
What are paleontologists?
An animal that eats plants is called this.
What is a herbivore?
Something left from a living thing long ago.
What is a fossil?
Fossils are often found in this material.
What is rock?
A Tyrannosaurus rex was as long as this vehicle.
What is a school bus?
Paleontologists put these together.
What are skeletons?
An animal that eats meat is called this.
What is a carnivore?
This word means that a kind of animal no longer lives anywhere on Earth.
What is extinct?
One step in fossil formation is that mud, soil, or clay covers these.
What are the remains of an animal?
This dinosaur had a long neck and ate tall plants.
What is Alamosaurus?
A skeleton is a full set of these.
What are bones?
Tyrannosaurus rex was a plant eater or a meat eater?
Meat eater
What is a meat eater.
This word means to carefully dig something out of the ground.
What is excavate?
Fossils can be found in ice, tar, and this hardened tree sap.
What is amber?
A Stegosaurus had bony plates on its back and these on its tail.
What are spikes?
Scientists use fossils to learn what dinosaurs looked like, what they ate, and how big they were. True or False?
True
Scientists study dinosaur teeth to learn this.
What dinosaurs ate
This word means that there are only a few of a kind of animal left, and it could become extinct.
What is endangered?
Over time, fossil remains turn into this.
What is rock?
Scientists can learn how dinosaurs moved by studying these.
What are fossils?
Paleontologists study animals and plants that lived this long ago.
What is millions of years ago?
This type of animal eats both plants and meat.
What is an omnivore?
This word means a large reptile that lived millions of years ago.
What is a dinosaur?