General Knowledge
True or False
DINOSAURS!
Estimating
Miscellaneous
100

What is a fossil?


Bones or remains from an animal or plant from long ago

100

The average fossil weighs 200 - 400 pounds

False, it is around 500-700 pounds

100

This about when dinosaurs died out.

What is 65 million years ago?


100

How far down was the deepest fossil ever found

2256 meters below seabed 

100

What do fossils represent?

That all species are related to one another.

200

Who studies fossils?

Who studies fossils?

200

Fossils are used for fuel 

True
200

These are possible reasons that dinosaurs became extinct.

What is: 1. giant asteroid hit earth which changed the climate 2. many huge volcanoes erupted creating a cloud of smoke dust and ash which blocked the sunlight

200

How old is the largest fossil found

160 to 100 million years ago

200

How old is the oldest fossil ever discovered?

Around 3.5 billion years old. 

300

People use this to find out how old fossils are

What is carbon dating?

300

Fossils can provide proof of climate change on Earth.

True

300

What dinosaur fossil is this?


Allosaurus

300

How old is the smallest fossil ever found

99 million years old 

300

The oldest discovered fossils is of this organism 

What is cyanobacteria?

400

These rocks are where fossils are most likely formed

What are sedimentary rocks?

400

Plants fossils don't exist. 

false

400

Dinosaur bones are this type of fossil.


What are petrified or replacement fossils?


400

How small is the smallest fossil, Oculudentavis khaungraae?(Previously thought to be a dinosaur, scientists now think it is a lizard)

7.5–13 cm (3–5 in) in length

400

These are reasons why studying fossils is important.


What are ways to know about the past, see how the earth has changed, and learn about earth's history?


500

Fossil teeth can tell you what

The size of the animal and what it ate.

500

Dinosaurs are the most common fossils found.

What is true?

500

These are things that dinosaurs of the past and reptiles of today have in common.


What are the same rib structure, four legs, scaly skin, and hatch from eggs?


500

How big is Maximo, the world's largest dinosaur fossil?

122 feet across and stands 38 feet tall at the head.

500

What can a fossil on top of a mountain tell you?

It used to be underwater.