Famous Paleontologists
The paleontologist who found the T-Rex.
Who is Barnum Brown?
The impression of a fossil
What is a mold fossil?
The era of time known as the age of dinosaurs.
What is the Mesozoic Era?
Dinosaurs are the descendants of
What are Archosaurs?
The cause of the mass extinction of dinosaurs.
What is the Meteor/Asteroid strike?
The paleontologist who provided evidence of asteroid/meteor impact that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Who was Luis Alarez?
The entire organism is fossilized in clay or sand.
What is a cast fossil?
The three periods of time that divide the Mesozoic Era.
What is the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods?
Descendants of Dinosaurs.
What are birds, chickens?
The causes of Mass Extinction.
Climate Change
Temperature Change
Volcanic Eruptions
Environmental Changes
Change in Food
Meteor/Asteroid strike
The fossil hunter who found the ichthyosaur, plesiosaur and pterosaur and later in life confirmed a Paleontologist.
Who was Mary Anning?
The minimum age, in years, of an organism to be considered a fossil.
What is 10,000 years?
The number of years ago that the dinosaurs became extinct due to a meteor/asteroid impact on the Yucatan Peninsula.
What is the 65.5 million years ago?
The two branches of dinosaurs that divided about 250 million years ago based on the hip position.
What are Ornithiscians and Saurischians?
The definition of Evolution.
What are organisms that change over a long period of time?
The inspiration behind Jurassic Park.
Who was Jack Horner?
A fossil trapped in ice or tar.
What is a body/original fossil?
The dinosaurs around during the Triassic period.
What is (at least one correct):
Coelophysis
Coloradosaurus
Guaibasaurus
The parts of the dinosaurs that protect it. State at least two.
What are horns, claws, frills, armor, plates, spikes?
Of all the organisms that were alive in the past, the amount that are still alive today.
What is 1%?
The current curator and director of the American Museum of Natural History.
Who was Mark Norell?
The sequence of steps to form a fossil.
What is:
Organism dies, cover in sediment layers, then covered in water. ground is uplifted exposing fossil?
What is:
Dinosaurs during the Jurassic Period (at least one)
What is Dilophosaurus, Allosaurus, Stegosaurus?
The one feature that divided the dinosaurs into two specific groups 250 million years ago.
What is the pubic bone? What is the position of the pubic bone?
The percent of organisms that are fossilized.
What is less than 1 %?