Paleontology 101

Vocabulary

100

Something that no longer exists

Extinct

200

surviving; to make changes

Adapt

300

One who searches for fossils

Paleontologist

400

Era dinosaurs first appeared on Earth

Mesozoic Era

500

time period before dinosaurs roamed on Earth

Paleozoic Era or Paleolithic Age

Plants

100

first to appear on Earth

Moss

200

plants with seeds to make more of its kind

Angiosperms

300

seeds can be shaped like cones

Gymnosperms

400

Some are flowering plants; some are non-flowering plants

True

500

Plants grew on Earth before dinosaurs so....

dinosaurs would have enough food to eat or reasonable answer

Dinosaur Periods

100

All dinosaurs starring in the movie Jurassic Park lived in the same period

False

200

These dinosaurs lived in which period...Eoraptor, Plateosaurus, and Daemonosaurus

Triassic Period

300

Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus, and the Archaeopteryx lived during the Cretaceous Period

False; they lived in the Jurassic Period

400

Name 2 dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period

Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptor, Ankylosaurus, and Triceratops 

500

Explain why with each new dinosaur period, dinosaurs grew to be bigger than the last period

More food because new plants were developing and thriving as Earth grew older, so dinosaurs had more to choose from

Reptile or Dinosaur

100

All dinosaurs were reptiles

False

200

Name any type of skin dinosaurs could have had  

Feathers, fur, bumps, or scaly skin

300

Reptiles are cold-blooded and usually lay eggs sometimes they may have live births

True

400

Which species has a vertebrae

Reptiles

500

Name 3 things that both dinosaur and reptiles have in common

They could each swallow food whole, have scaly skin, have backbones, and lay eggs

Fact or Myth

100

In Jurassic Park all of the dinosaurs would have lived together in the same time period

False, there were 3 dinosaur periods

200

Dinosaur fossils were only found in North America

Myth- fossils have been located all over the world. or acceptable answer

300

Scientists believe that some dinosaurs were able to adapt in order to survive changes happening on earth. Name one animal scientist believe is related to an extinct dinosaur today

Asian elephant, birds other acceptable answer

400

Name the categories that describe what dinosaurs ate

Omnivores- ate both meat and plants

Carnivore- ate only meat

Herbivores- ate only plants or another acceptable answer

500

All dinosaur teeth were the same so they could all eat meat and plants

Myth- some dinosaur had sharp pointy teeth for eating meat, others had blunt teeth used for mashing plants