What is a Dinosaur?
Which group of animals living today are considered "living dinosaurs"?
Birds
The ancestors of whales lived where?
on land/along coastlines
The Dinosaurs went extinct at the end of which time period?
Cretaceous
A supercontinent formed during the Triassic period, what was it called?
Pangea
What makes dinosaurs different from other reptiles?
hole in their hips/can walk upright
We know very little about prehistoric sharks, including Megalodon, because only one part of their skeleton fossilizes, what part of a shark skeleton fossilizes?
Teeth
Reptiles evolved from these slippery-skinned, aquatic animals, some of which are still around today.
Amphibians
What are two hard parts of a squid?
Pen and Beak
Name three adaptations that dinosaurs had
sickle claw, tail spikes, tail club, body armor, head crests, long necks, etc.
Which prehistoric marine reptile's closest living relative is snakes?
Mosasaurs
Two very important groups of animals evolved during the Triassic period, what were they?
Dinosaurs and Mammals
What are the two main types of fossils?
Body and Trace fossils
What is the longest known meat-eating dinosaur?
Spinosaurus
The Western Interior Seaway cut through the middle of which continent during the Cretaceous Period?
North America
Which kinds of insect evolved right after flowers? (name one)
Ants/Bees
Name three herbivorous dinosaurs and three carnivorous dinosaurs (specify which are which)
Herbivorous: Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Apatosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Triceratops, Iguanodon, etc.
Carnivorous: Tyrannosaurus, Spinosaurus, Velociraptor, Allosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Giganotosaurus, etc.
For how long did dinosaurs exist on Earth? (+/- 20 million years)
160 million years
Name three specific species of marine reptile from marine reptile bingo (Plesiosaurus and Mosasaurus do not count)
Mixosaurus, Elasmosaurus, Tylosaurus, Archelon, Cymbospondylus, Geosaurus, etc.
The worst mass extinction in Earth's history happened during which time period?
Permian
Name three geologic time periods (not including Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous)
Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Neogene, Paleogene, Quaternary