Question | Answer |
How many years has the term "dinosaur" been around? | 170 years |
What evidence do we have that dinosaurs probably roamed the earth with humans? | 1. Ancient artwork 2. Unfossilized tissue found in dinosaur bones |
What is a paleontologist? | A scientist who studies fossils. |
Once a fossil is identified as coming from a reptile, what causes paleontologists to call it a dinosaur fossil? | The way it walked. |
All dinosaurs fit into two groups. What are they? | 1. Ornithischian = bird hipped 2. Saurischia = lizard-hipped KNOW HOW TO SPELL SCIENTIFIC NAMES AND KNOW IF IT WAS BIRD OR LIZARD-HIPPED. |
"saur" or "saurus" means what in Greek? | Lizard |
What are gastroliths? | Small stones swallowed by animals to help them digest their food. |
What are 3 reasons dinosaurs may have become extinct? | The ice age may have limited their food supply, changes in the climate as a result of the Flood, and hunted to extinction. |
The Brontosaurus is a real dinosaur. T or F | False |
Lizard-hipped dinosaurs are divided into two groups. What are they? | 1. Sauropods=lizard-footed (they walked on all fours) 2. Theropod=beast-footed (they walked on two legs. KNOW ALL THIS INFORMATION. |
Ornithischia or bird-hipped dinosaurs are related to birds. T or F | False. Despite their name, paleontologists don't think they are related to birds. (It is the theropods they think may be related to birds.) |