Fossils & Fun
What is T Rex, Pterodactyl, Brachiosaurus, and Mosasaurus?
Sharks need to adapt to do what
What is eating?
What is surviving?
Act as a natural water purifier by filtering and removing pollutants from the sea
What is an oyster?
a long term shift in weather patterns and temperature
What is climate change?
What is "living fossils"?
In the layers of the Earth, you will find older rocks and fossils here
What is the bottom?
What is deeper in the Earth?
Name two characteristics of sharks
What is sharp teeth?
What is no bones?
What is large dorsal fin?
What is torpedo body shape?
The two types of plankton
What is zooplankton and phytoplankton?
the fate of 98% of all species on Earth
What is extinction?
True or False
You drink the same water as dinosaurs.
TRUE
What is flour? / What is salt? / What is salt dough?
What is water?
What is plaster?
Sharks have been around for this amount of time
What is 400 million years?
Name an organism you would find in an ancient reef habitat
What is algae?
What are sponges?
What are mollusks?
What are corals?
Name one historical cause of climate change
What are solar cycles?
What are erupting volcanoes?
What is plate tectonics?
What are asteroid impacts?
This dinosaur had a brain the size of a walnut
What is a stegosaurus?
The name of the boat you went on
Hint: donated by Jimmy Buffett
What is the Miss Peetsy B?
The shark with a large platform on their dorsal fin
What is an anvil shark?
or
What is Stethacanthus?
A single oyster can filter up to this many gallons of water a day
What is 50 gallons?
The animal that persisted after each extinction
What is a shark?
The Earth is this many years old.
What is 4.5 billion years old?
(give or take 50 million years)
Paleontologists only find shark teeth (and not bones) for this reason
What is Sharks don't have bones?
What is sharks are cartilaginous fish?
Name one of the three types of sharks that had unique teeth adaptations.
What is Edestus?
What is Helicoprion?
What is Megalodon?
One of the first organisms to make up large reefs
Hint: It was a bivalve
What is a Rudist
Name two of the five historical mass extinctions
What is the late Devonian?
What is the Permain-Triassic?
What is the Triassic-Jurassic?
What is the Cretaceous-Paleogene?
Which is wider - the moon or Australia?
What is Australia?