Vocabulary 1
A type of animal that lived long ago that shares traits with modern birds and reptiles.
What is a dinosaur?
A habitat with lots of trees.
What is a forest?
Something you can observe about a living thing, for example, the fins on a fish.
What is a trait?
To eat meat.
Why do carnivores have sharp teeth?
An area where you would find fossils of fish, turtles and starfish.
What is an ocean habitat?
The remains of a plant or animal that lived a very, very long time ago.
What is a fossil?
A habitat with mostly grasses and very few trees.
What is a grassland?
An animal that eats only other animals, has sharp teeth
What is a carnivore?
To eat plants.
Why do herbivores have flat teeth?
The area you find fossils in once had been covered in water but now is not.
Why would an area have fossils from animals that lived in the water if there is no water there now?
A type of fossil that shows an animal or plant was once there, such as footprints.
What is a trace fossil?
A habitat that is usually hot and gets very little rain.
What is a desert?
An animal that eats only plants has flat teeth.
What is a herbivore?
Their footprints are close together.
How can we tell if an animal was walking by studying the trace fossils?
A scientist who studies fossils.
Who is a paleontologist?
What is a habitat?
A type of living thing that once lived on Earth but no longer exists.
What is to be extinct?
The footprints would be farther apart.
How can we tell if an animal running by studying the trace fossils?
A large area of salt water that covers the earth.
What is an ocean?
A habitat that is very cold.
What is polar?
You find a fossil that looks like a bat wing.
The animal could probably fly.