Dino Basics
The word _______ is used for a species that is no longer living anywhere on Earth.
What is extinct?
This movie made people think Velociraptors were giant-sized.
What is Jurassic Park?
In Jurassic Park, the dinosaurs were cloned using DNA from insects trapped in this.
What is amber?
Scientists who study fossils are called this.
What are paleontologists?
Tyrannosaurus rex was this type of eater.
What is a carnivore?
This giant meat-eater is often called the “king of the dinosaurs.”
What is Tyrannosaurus rex?
Fossils are most commonly found in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
True or false: Dinosaurs dragged their tails on the ground.
What is false?
This company created Jurassic Park in the movies.
What is InGen?
Sometimes a bone is a fossil, but an impression or track left in a soft surface can also be fossilized. What is this impression or track called?
What is imprint?
Plants are at the bottom of this ecological system.
What is the food chain?
Scientists now believe many dinosaurs may have looked more like this type of animal than giant lizards.
What are birds?
Fossils can tell scientists about dinosaur diets through these worn-down mouth structures.
What are teeth?
The word “dinosaur” means this in Greek.
What is “terrible lizard”?
When a fossil is made, first an animal dies and sinks into the sand or mud. Then its muscles and skin rot away and it turns to rock over millions of years. Then the ________changes and part of the fossils shows, making it possible for the fossil to be discovered.
What is earth?