Parks and Historic Sites
This Provincial Park is named after the animals that roamed the earth millions of years ago
Dinosaur Provincial Park
This is the scientific name of dinosaur bones found underground.
Fossils
Today this Alberta Region is hot and dry in the summer. Perfect for looking for fossils.
Grasslands
Scientists who look for fossils are called
Paleontologists
In 1979 Dinosaur Provincial Park became a
World Heritage Site
Ture or False. All dead animal bones turn into fossils?
False. Only under the right conditions do dead animals turn into fossils.
65 million years ago Alberta was hot and dry or warm and wet?
Warm and wet
Joseph Tyrrell was looking for what in southern Alberta
Coal
Why is the Royal Tyrrell Museum important to Alberta?
People come from all over the world to see it.
One of the world's only museums dedicated to dinosaurs.
What happened to fossils found in Alberta in the 1800 and early 1900's
They were shipped to the USA to be studied
True or false 65 million years ago Alberta was swampy with big rivers and an inland sea?
True
What did Joseph Tyrrell find?
Fossils
This was Alberta's first Provincial Park
Aspen Beach
True or False. If you find a fossil you can keep it?
False
True or False. British Columbia has more dinosaur fossils than Alberta
False
Albertosaurous
This city is home to the Royal Tyrrell Museum
Drumheller
In what year did it become illegal to keep a fossil found in Alberta?
1979
True or False. Indigenous peoples believed that dinosaur fossils were "the grandfather of the buffalo"
True
Would it be fun to be a Paleontologist
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