PUT THE FOLLOWING GEOLOGICAL PERIODS IN ORDER: CAMBRIAN, CRETACEOUS, AND TRIASSIC

CAMBRIAN, TRIASSIC, & CRETACEOUS

1 OF THE 3 CS IN THE GEOLOGICAL MNEMONIC "CAMELS OFTEN SIT DOWN CAREFULLY...PERHAPS THEIR JOINTS CREAK"

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NATURAL HISTORY

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PUT THE FOLLOWING GEOLOGICAL PERIODS IN ORDER: CAMBRIAN, CRETACEOUS, AND TRIASSIC	CAMBRIAN, TRIASSIC, & CRETACEOUS
DURING THE TERTIARY PERIOD, INDIA PLOWED INTO EURASIA & THIS HIGHEST MOUNTAIN RANGE WAS FORMED	HIMALAYAS
THE TRIASSIC SAW THE FIRST OF THIS LACTATING TYPE OF ANIMAL, EVOLVING FROM CREATURES CALLED SYANPSIDS	MAMMALS
THE 1ST CLAW OF THE UTAHRAPTOR WAS THOUGHT TO BE A RIB...THEY GREW 'EM BIG IN THIS PERIOD, FROM LATIN FOR "CHALK"	CRETACEOUS
IT'S WHY YOU COULDN'T HAVE LIVED IN MOST OF THE PRESENT-DAY U.S. DURING ORDOVICIAN TIMES	IT WAS UNDERWATER
THE SUPERCONTINENT CALLED THIS LAND WAS THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE PALEOZOIC LANDMASS PANGAEA	GONDWANALAND
IT'S THE 2-WORD FURNITURE TERM FOR THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN SATURATED AND UNSATURATED ZONES OF SOIL	WATER TABLE
SUGARLOAF IS ONE HUGE SLAB OF ROCK RISING 1300' ABOVE ITS BASE; GEOLOGICALLY, IT'S A GRANITE ONE OF THESE, FROM THE GREEK FOR "ONE STONE"	MONOLITH
IT'S BEEN PROPOSED THAT SULFATE AEROSOLS FROM THESE GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA KILLED OFF THE DINOSAURS	VOLCANOES
YOU MIGHT ENCOUNTER A REAL STEGOSAURUS IF YOU CAN GO BACK TO THE LATE PART OF THIS GEOLOGICAL PERIOD, A GOOD ONE FOR DINOSAURS	JURASSIC
DINOSAURS DIED OUT IN THIS GEOLOGICAL ERA THAT MEANS "MIDDLE LIFE"	MESOZOIC ERA
GEOLOGIC ERA BETWEEN THE PALEOZOIC & THE CENOZOIC	MESOZOIC
THIS COAL-FORMING PERIOD OF GEOLOGIC TIME IS SPLIT INTO MISSISSIPPIAN AND PENNSYLVANIAN PERIODS	CARBONIFEROUS
THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY IS PART OF THIS CABINET DEPARTMENT	DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR
THIS LONGEST DIVISION OF GEOLOGIC TIME DOESN'T HAVE A FIXED PERIOD; IN ASTRONOMY, IT'S ONE BILLION YEARS	EON
THIS 9-LETTER GEOLOGIC SCIENCE IS THE STUDY OF THE MOVEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF ALL THE EARTH'S WATERS	HYDROLOGY
IN 2006 FEMA & THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPONSORED A CONFERENCE COMMEMORATING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS EVENT	SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE
GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT THIS 5,000-MILE MOUNTAIN CHAIN MAY EXTEND SOUTH INTO ANTARCTICA	ANDES
IN GEOLOGIC THEORY, THE EARTH'S OUTER SHELL HAS ABOUT 12 BIG THESE, MOVING AROUND TECTONICALLY	PLATES
YOU'LL FIND THIS GEOLOGICAL ATTRACTION ABOUT 280 MILES FROM ALICE SPRINGS	AYERS ROCK
IN GEOLOGICAL TIME, THE ARCHEAN, PROTERZOIC, AND PHANEROZOIC ARE 3 OF THESE VERRRRY LONG PERIODS	EONS
THIS GEOLOGICAL EPOCH THAT ENDED ABOUT 11,000 YEARS AGO INCLUDED NUMEROUS ICE AGES	PLEISTOCENE
THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY HAS A DATABASE OF THESE IN A 1:100,000 SCALE	MAPS
THE GEOLOGICAL FEATURE CALLED A HORST IS BOUNDED BY THESE, WHICH CALIFORNIANS KNOW ALL ABOUT	FAULTS
NAMED FOR THE TINY TIME PERIOD THAT FOLLOWED IT, THIS INTERVAL COVERS ABOUT 80% OF GEOLOGICAL TIME	PRECAMBRIAN
1 OF THE 3 CS IN THE GEOLOGICAL MNEMONIC "CAMELS OFTEN SIT DOWN CAREFULLY...PERHAPS THEIR JOINTS CREAK"	CRETACEOUS, CAMBRIAN, CARBONIFEROUS
WHILE SERVING AS SECRETARY OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 1839-41, HE WROTE THE "JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES"	DARWIN
SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THAT DINOSAURS LIVED THROUGH 3 GEOLOGICAL PERIODS: TRIASSIC, JURASSIC, AND THIS ONE	CRETACEOUS
IN GEOLOGIC TIME, ONE OF THESE, SHORTER THAN AN EON, IS DIVIDED INTO PERIODS & SUBDIVIDED INTO EPOCHS	ERA
THEY'RE THE GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS MENTIONED IN JOHN DENVER'S "TAKE ME HOME COUNTRY ROADS"	BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS
NOT ONLY CAN YOU BUY MAPS OF THE EARTH FROM THE USGS, WHICH STANDS FOR THIS, YOU CAN BUY MAPS OF MARS AS WELL	U.S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
FROM 1838-41, THIS NATURALIST WAS SECRETARY OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON	DARWIN
THIS PEAK, CANADA'S HIGHEST POINT, WAS NAMED FOR THE FOUNDER OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA	MT. LOGAN
GEOLOGIC PHRASE MEANING "HIGHS & LOWS", OR CATHY MORELLI'S COLUMN ABOUT THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF WOMANHOOD	PEAKS & VALLEYS
IT'S A 600-MILE FAULT ZONE STRETCHING FROM SOUTHERN TO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA	SAN ANDREAS FAULT
BY DEFINITION, OROGENY IS THE GEOLOGIC PROCESS BY WHICH THESE ARE FORMED ON EARTH	MOUNTAINS
FROM THE GREEK FOR "A POINT IN TIME", EOCENE AND PALEOCENE WERE 2 OF THESE PERIODS OF GEOLOGIC TIME	EPOCHS
THE GREAT ICE AGE OCCURRED DURING THIS GEOLOGIC EPOCH	PLEISTOCENE
THIS GEOLOGIC "ERA" IS SOMETIMES CALLED THE AGE OF MAMMALS	CENOZOIC
THE NAME OF THIS MOST RECENT GEOLOGICAL ERA IS FROM THE GREEK FOR "NEW ANIMALS"	CENOZOIC
CALIFORNIA ADVERTISING MAN GARY DAHL CREATED THIS POPULAR GEOLOGICAL "PET" IN 1975	PET ROCK
NEXT IN LENGTH ON THE SCALE OF GEOLOGICAL TIME: AGE, EPOCH, PERIOD, ERA, ...	EON
THIS GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE STUDIES THE FORCES WITHIN THE EARTH THAT CAUSE PLATE ACTIVITY	TECHTONICS
LONGER THAN AN ERA, THIS IS THE LONGEST GEOLOGICAL TIME UNIT	EON
BIRDS EVOLVED FROM DINOSAURS DURING THIS GEOLOGIC ERA, "THE AGE OF REPTILES"	MESOZOIC ERA
"THE AGE OF MAMMALS"	CENOZOIC
"THE AGE OF REPTILES"	MESOZOIC
WE'RE IN THE HOLOCENE EPOCH OF THE QUATERNARY PERIOD OF THE CENOZOIC ONE OF THESE	ERA
MOVING SEVERAL TIMES, THE FIRST WAS ORIGINALLY P.T. BARNUM'S MONSTER CLASSICAL AND GEOLOGICAL HIPPODROME	MADISON SQUARE GARDENS
HE WAS THE PROPRIETOR OF THE "CLASSICAL AND GEOLOGICAL HIPPODROME" THAT BECAME MADISON SQUARE GARDEN	P.T. BARNUM
THIS DINOSAUR'S NAME COMES FROM THE GREEK FOR "WEIGHT", AS IN AN ATMOSPHERIC METER	BAROSAURUS
THIS J.D. SALINGER HERO REMINISCES ABOUT SEEING THE HAIDA CANOE ON CHILDHOOD TRIPS TO THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY	HOLDEN CAULFIELD
SPHERE USED BY EARLY ASTRONOMERS TO REPRESENT THE CIRCLES OF THE HEAVENS	ARMILLARY
COURTESY OF THE FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, A BRACHIOSAURUS SKELETON IS MOUNTED IN THIS MIDWEST AIRPORT	O'HARE
WORLD-FAMOUS PLANETARIUM LOCATED AT THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, AND NAMED FOR A PHILANTHROPIST	HAYDEN PLANETARIUM
THE TINY CREATURES THAT MAKE UP CORAL REEFS	POLYPS
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY HAS A 563-CARAT SAPPHIRE CALLED THE "STAR OF INDIA", THAT WAS ACTUALLY FOUND ON THIS ISLAND	SRI LANKA
THE COSTLIEST NATURAL DISASTER IN U.S. HISTORY	HURRICANE KATRINA
WORKING THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT, SECURITY GUARD BEN STILLER SEES NATURAL HISTORY EXHIBITS COME TO LIFE IN THIS FILM	NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY HAS AN ANNUAL FESTIVAL NAMED FOR THIS ANTHROPOLOGIST	MARGARET MEAD
THIS FORTUNE 500 COMPANY GOT ITS NAME FROM WHAT IT BOUGHT FROM SAILORS & SOLD TO NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTORS	SHELL OIL
FROM THE GREEK FOR "SEE THROUGH", THEY'RE THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM DISPLAYS OF ANIMALS IN THEIR HABITATS	DIORAMAS
THIS CITY'S CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY HAS THE FIRST TYRANNOSAURUS REX SKELETON, FOUND IN 1902	PITTSBURGH
BUSHMAN, A FAMOUS GORILLA WHO ONCE LIVED AT CHICAGO'S LINCOLN PARK ZOO, LIVES ON FOREVER AT THIS NEARBY MUSEUM	FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
AT THE LAS VEGAS NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, A 35' LONG REPLICA OF ONE OF THESE "TYRANT LIZARDS" ACTUALLY MOVES AND ROARS	TYRANNOSAURUS REX
WHAT WAS ONCE THE CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM IS NOW CALLED THIS, AFTER ITS FOUNDER	FIELD MUSEUM
THE MONSANTO FUND HAS GIVEN THIS INSTITUTION $3 MILLION TO OPEN AN INSECTARIUM	ST. LOUIS ZOO
CAPE MORRIS JESSUP ON THIS DANISH ISLAND WAS NAMED FOR A PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY	GREENLAND
BOOKS 12-19 OF THIS "ELDER" ANCIENT ROMAN'S "NATURAL HISTORY" ARE DEVOTED TO BOTANY	PLINY
THE HAYDEN PLANETARIUM IS A PART OF THIS NYC MUSEUM	MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
THIS CHICAGO MUSEUM HOUSES MORE THAN 19 MILLION ARTIFACTS AND SPECIMANS	FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
WESLEY PETERS, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S SON-IN-LAW, DESIGNED A 4-STORY ANNEX TO THIS NYC ART MUSEUM	GUGGENHEIM
CHALK & LIMESTONE ARE NATURALLY OCCURRING FORMS OF THIS COMPOUND, CACO3	CALCIUM CARBONATE
THIS CHICAGO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY WAS AN OUTGROWTH OF THE 1893 COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION	FIELD MUSEUM
THE ELDER WROTE NATURAL HISTORY AND THE YOUNGER, HIS NEPHEW AND ADOPED SON, WAS KNOWN FOR HIS BOOKS OF LETTERS	PLINY
NO ONE KNOWS THE PURPOSE, BUT LIKE MODERN BIRDS, THE STEGOSAURUS HAS A SMALL HOLE IN ITS SKULL CALLED A FENESTRA, FROM THE LATIN FOR THIS	WINDOW
WE GREW UP CALLING THE ALLEGED APATOSAURUS THIS; TO US IT'LL ALWAYS BE THIS...SO THERE!	BRONTOSAURUS
KNOWN FOR LONG NECKS & SMALL HEADS, DINOSAURS LIKE DIPLODOCUS BELONGED TO THIS "LIZARD FOOT" GROUP	SAUROPODS
THE SMALLEST OF THESE RECOGNIZED BY GUINNESS IS THE CHICKEN-SIZED COMPSOGNATHUS	DINOSAUR
THIS DINOSAUR ROTATED THE JOINT BETWEEN ITS HEAD AND NECK, THEN OPENED ITS JAW SIDEWAYS TO GET TO FOLIAGE	TRICERATOPS
THIS PLANT-EATER IS THE LARGEST, MOST COMMON AND BEST KNOWN OF THE HORNED DINOSAURS	TRICERATOPS
THIS DINOSAUR WAS SWIFT, BUT NOT AS FAST OR AS SMART AS IN "JURASSIC PARK"; IT DID HAVE THAT SCARY SICKLE-LIKE CLAW THOUGH	VELOCIRAPTOR
THE NAME OF THE LAPLATASAURUS HONORS A RIVER ON THE BORDER OF URUGUAY AND THIS COUNTRY	ARGENTINA
NAMED FOR ITS CATTLE-LIKE HORNS, THIS DINOSAUR WHOSE NAME MEANS "BULL LIZARD", HAD THE LARGEST HEAD OF ANY KNOWN LAND ANIMAL	TOROSAURUS
THE TRICERATOPS FOUND IN THIS STATE'S BLACK HILLS WON OFFICIAL FOSSIL STATUS	SOUTH DAKOTA
MONTANA'S STATE FOSSIL, THE MAIASAURA, HAD THIS TYPE OF MOUTH, LIKE THE PLATYPUS	DUCK BILL
HADDONFIELD, IN THIS EASTERN STATE, WAS THE SITE OF THE FIRST "NEARLY COMPLETE" DINOSAUR FIND...A HADROSAURUS	NEW JERSEY
THE TEETH FROM MARYLAND'S ASTRODON WERE CUT OPEN IN 1858 AND REVEALED THIS PATTERN, HENCE ITS NAME	STAR
SAUROPHAGANAX WAS NAMED THIS STATE'S OFFICIAL FOSSIL IN 2000 AND YOU CAN SEE ONE AT THE SAM NOBLE MUSEUM IN NORMAN	OKLAHOMA
THE 2 DINOSAURIAN ORDERS ARE SAURISCHIA, WHICH MEANS "LIZARD HIPS" AND ORNITRISCHIA, WHICH MEANS THIS	BIRD HIPS
THE NAME OF THIS EXTINCT CRITTER COMES FROM WORDS MEANING "TERRIBLE LIZARD"	DINOSAUR
THE ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF THIS -OLOGY HAS 35 COMPLETE DINOSAUR SKELETONS	PALEONTOLOGY
THE FLINTSTONE'S PET COULD TELL YOU THAT THESE PARTS OF PLANKTON ARE NAMED IN PART FOR APPENDAGES CALLED FLAGELLA	DINOFLAGELLATES
THE ATLANTIC OCEAN BEGAN TO FORM DURING THIS PERIOD OF THE MESOZOIC ERA WHEN DINOSAURS ROAMED	JURASSIC PERIOD
GUINNESS SAYS THE SMALLEST ONE OF THESE AMONG THE DINOSAURS WAS THE WALNUT-SIZED ONE OF THE 30' STEGOSAURUS	BRAIN
THE BBC'S "TRUTH ABOUT KILLER DINOSAURS" STAGED A FIGHT BETWEEN T.REX AND THIS 3-HORNED BEAST	TRICERATOPS
ALSO A TYPE OF MODERN BIRD, THIS WORD FOLLOWS "OVI" AND "UTAH" IN DINOSAUR NAMES	RAPTOR
PATAGOSAURUS THRIVED ON THIS CONTINENT 160 TO 170 MILLION YEARS AGO	SOUTH AMERICA
THIS PREHISTORIC MONUMENT ON THE SALISBURY PLAIN IS THOUGHT TO BE CARVED FROM STONES OF THE PRESCELLY MOUNTAINS	STONEHENGE
SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THAT EOHIPPUS, ABOUT THE SIZE OF A SMALL DOG, WAS THE EARLIEST ANCESTOR OF THIS ANIMAL	HORSE
SCIENTISTS HAVE PLACED 5 SPECIES OF PREHUMANS INTO THE GENUS AUSTRALOPITHICUS, WHICH MEANS "SOUTHERN" THIS	APE
THIS PREHISTORIC PEOPLE THAT FOLLOWED NEANDERTHAL MAN PRODUCED THE FIRST EXAMPLES OF HUMAN ARTWORK	CRO MAGNON
SITES OF PREHISTORIC CAVE PAINTINGS INCLUDE ALTAMIRA IN SPAIN AND THIS FRENCH CAVE FAMED FOR ITS HALL OF BULLS	LASCAUX
ANY RECOGNIZABLE PREHISTORIC REMAINS OF PLANTS OR ANIMALS BURIED IN THE EARTH; IT'S FROM THE LATIN FOR "DUG UP"	FOSSIL
IN 1891 PREHISTORIC HUMAN FOSSILS GIVEN THIS GEOGRAPHIC NAME WERE DISCOVERED ON AN INDONESIAN ISLAND	JAVA MAN
UNEARTHED IN 1869, THIS 10' "GIANT" WASN'T A PREHISTORIC MAN BUT A HOAX BURIED AND "DISCOVERED" BY GEORGE HULL	CARDIFF GIANT
OVER 5' TALL, PACHYDYPTES PONDEROSUS WAS A PREHISTORIC ONE OF THESE COLD-WEATHER BIRDS	PENGUIN
AUTHOR JEAN AUEL COULD TELL YOU THIS BETTER-KNOWN NAME OF THE EXTINCT URSUS SPELAEUS	CAVE BEAR
A LARGE GREEN SANDSTONE BLOCK AT THIS PREHISTORIC SITE IS CALLED THE "ALTAR STONE"	STONEHENGE
THE BEST GUESS ON THE PURPOSE OF SPINOSAURUS' SAIL WAS THAT BY TURNING IT THE BEAST COULD REGULATE THIS	BODY TEMPERATURE
THE SHARKLIKE ACANTHODIANS WERE THE FIRST VERTEBRATES WITH THESE; EARLIER ONES HAD VACUUM-CLEANER MOUTHS	JAWS
FOSSILS IN NIGER INDICATE THE "SUPER" TYPE OF THIS ANIMAL WAS THE SIZE OF A BUS; IT OFTEN DROWNED ITS PREY	CROCODILE
IF HORTON CLIMBED HIS FAMILY TREE, HE'D GO FROM ELEPHANT TO STEGODON TO STEGOLOPHODON TO THIS	MASTADON
THE "ISLE OF" THIS HAS BEEN INHABITED SINCE PREHISTORIC TIMES; IT WAS ONCE CALLED VECTIS	ISLE OF WIGHT
THE NAME OF THIS SMALL PREHISTORIC HORSE OF NORTH AMERICA COMES FROM GREEK FOR "DAWN HORSE"	EOHIPPUS
IN AGANA, THE CAPITAL OF THIS U.S. TERRITORY, YOU CAN VISIT LATTE STONE PARK AND SEE STONE PILLARS FROM A PREHISTORIC PEOPLE	GUAM
PREHISTORIC PEOPLE MADE ARROWHEADS & KNIVES OUT OF THIS ROCK WHICH WAS ALSO USED TO MAKE FIRES	FLINT
IT'S A MEGALITHIC STONE SLAB MARKING A PREHISTORIC TOMB	DOLMEN
FROM THE GREEK MEANING "STUDY OF ANCIENT EXISTENCE", IT'S THE STUDY OF PREHISTORIC PLANTS AND ANIMALS FROM FOSSIL REMAINS	PALEONTOLOGY
HISTORIANS GENERALLY AGREE THAT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SEPARATES PREHISTORY FROM HISTORY	WRITING
EOHIPPUS WAS NOT AN EARLY HIPPOPOTAMUS, BUT THE FIRST ONE OF THESE ANIMALS	HORSE
IN THE PLEISTOCENE EPOCH, THESE GOUGED AT GORGES IN RIVER VALLEYS; WHEN THEY MELTED, ROCKS AND SOIL WERE LEFT	GLACIERS
THIS "MAN" FOUND IN A GERMAN VALLEY IN 1856, WAS THE FIRST FOSSIL RECOGNIZED AS A PREHISTORIC HUMAN	NEANDERTHAL
THIS COAL-FORMING PERIOD CONSISTED OF 2 PORTIONS: PENNSYLVANIAN AND MISSISSIPPIAN	CARBONIFEROUS
PREHISTORIC ALIEN VISITATIONS TO EARTH ARE SUGGESTED IN THIS AUTHOR'S "CHARIOTS OF THE GODS?"	ERICH VON DANIKEN
THESE SMALL 3-LOBED CREATURES DOMINATED THE SEAS OF THE CAMBRIAN PERIOD	TRILOBYTES
WHEN THE BIG BANG OCCURRED, THESE 2 ELEMENTS WERE FIRST TO FORM AS THEY ARE THE LIGHTEST	HYDROGEN & HELIUM
AS ITS NAME SUGGESTS, A PTERODACTYL'S WINGS WERE SUPPORTED BY THE BONES IN THESE	FINGERS
THIS ENORMOUS CREATURE'S NAME MEANS "ARM LIZARD"	BRACHIOSAURUS
OCMULGEE NATIONAL MONUMENT AT MACON IN THIS STATE PRESERVES SOME PREHISTORIC AND HISTORIC INDIAN VILLAGES	GEORGIA
THE PREHISTORIC "MAN" NAMED FOR THIS ENGLISH PLACE TURNED OUT TO BE PART MODERN CORPSE AND PART APE	PILTDOWN MAN
THE NAME OF THIS PREHISTORIC REPTILE, THE LARGEST KNOWN FLYING ANIMAL, MEANS "WING FINGER"	PTERODACTYL
SOME PREHISTORIC HORSES HAD THIS MANY TOES ON EACH FOOT, LIKE RHINOS, WHICH ARE DISTANT RELATIVES OF THE HORSE	3
HOT SPRINGS, SD HAS ONE OF NORTH AMERICA'S LARGEST GRAVEYARDS OF THESE PREHISTORIC ELEPHANTS	MAMMOTHS
DESPITE ITS GREAT SIZE, THIS "PLATED LIZARD" HAD A BRAIN THE SIZE OF A WALNUT	STEGOSAURUS
MANY NOW THINK THAT UNLIKE MODERN REPTILES, DINOSAURS WERE HOMEOTHERMIC, MEANING THIS	WARM-BLOODED
EDMONTOSAURUS, DISCOVERED IN THIS CANADIAN PROVINCE IN 1917, WAS ALMOST DEFENSELESS AND WAS PREYED UPON BY THE T-REX	ALBERTA
THE NAME OF THE FEROCIOUS PREDATOR SEEN IN "JURASSIC PARK" MEANS "ONE WHO SEIZES QUICKLY"	VELOCIRAPTOR
ALTHOUGH ITS NAME SUGGESTS THAT IT HAD 5 OF THESE, THE PENTACERATOPS HAD JUST 3; TWO WERE MERELY ENLARGED CHEEKBONES	HORNS
HIGH LEVELS OF THIS METAL, ATOMIC #77, IN ROCKS NEAR DINOSAUR FOSSILS LED TO THE ASTEROID THEORY OF THEIR DEMISE	IRIDIUM
THIS 52'-TALL HERBIVORE WHOSE NAME MEANS "ARM LIZARD" HAD LONGER FORELEGS THAN HINDLEGS	BRACHIOSAURUS
THE LARGEST SINGLE LIVING ANIMAL CELL ON EARTH IS THE YOLK OF THIS CREATURE'S EGG	OSTRICH
IT WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST OF THE HORNED DINOSAURS; 2 OF ITS 3 HORNS WERE UP TO 3' LONG	TRICERATOPS
THE ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM IN THIS WESTERNMOST PRAIRIE PROVINCE IS A WORLD LEADER IN DINOSAUR RESEARCH	ALBERTA
LIKE CHICKENS AND SOME DINOSAURS, COCKROACHES HAVE THIS INTERNAL MUSCULAR ORGAN WHERE THEY GRIND THEIR FOOD	GIZZARD
IODINE GAS IS THIS COLOR ASSOCIATED WITH ROYALTY AND WITH A DINOSAUR WHO LOVES YOU	PURPLE
IN THE 1920S, SCIENTISTS DISCOVERED FOSSILIZED DINOSAUR EGGS IN THIS HUGE MONGOLIAN DESERT	GOBI
TRACES OF IRIDIUM IN ROCKS LEND CREDENCE TO THE THEORY THAT THIS COSMIC EVENT LED TO THE DINOSAURS' EXTINCTION	ASTEROID HITTING THE EARTH
EXTINCT BEFORE THE DINOSAURS EVER WALKED, TRILOBITES ARE KEY SIGNATURE CREATURES OF THIS "OLD ANIMAL" ERA	PALEOZOIC
THIS PLANT-EATING DINOSAUR'S NAME, WHICH MEANS "COVER LIZARD", REFERS TO THE TRIANGUALAR PLATES ALONG ITS BACK	STEGOSAURUS
THE DINOSAUR TENONTOSAURUS KEPT ITS BALANCE WITH THIS FEATURE THAT MADE UP ROUGHLY HALF ITS 24' LENGTH	TAIL
LOOKING FOR THIS LEGENDARY IN-BETWEEN FOSSIL IN MONGOLIA, ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS DISCOVERED DINOSAUR EGGS	THE MISSING LINK
NICKNAMED SUE, THE LARGEST OF THESE, THE "KING OF THE DINOSAURS", WAS UNCOVERED IN SOUTH DAKOTA IN 1990	TYRANNOSAURUS REX
THE MEMENCHISAURUS COULD REALLY STICK THIS OUT...IT HAD THE LARGEST OF ANY DINOSAUR, ABOUT 36'	NECK
THE 75'-LONG APATOSAURUS HAS ALSO BEEN KNOWN BY THIS NAME, WHICH MEANS "THUNDER LIZARD"	BRONTOSAURUS
IN DIPLODOCUS, THESE INDIVIDUAL BACK BONES WERE HOLLOW, KEEPING THE ANIMAL'S WEIGHT TO 12 TONS	VERTEBRAE
ITS 2 LONGER HORNS COULD EXTEND MORE THAN 3 FEET	TRICERATOPS
ROBERT BAKER "HEATED UP" PALEONTOLOGY BY SUGGESTING THAT DINOSAURS WERE HOMEOTHERMIC, ALSO CALLED THIS	WARM BLOODED
THE CREDITS OF "THE FLINTSTONES" REPORT THAT NONE OF THESE WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THE MOVIE	DINOSAURS
AMHERST'S PRATT MUSEUM HAS THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF THESE MARKINGS LEFT BY DINOSAUR STROLLS	FOSSILIZED FOOTPRINTS
ALONG WITH THE FAMOUS PLATES THAT RAN DOWN ITS BACK, IT ALSO HAD 4 TALL, DEADLY SPINES ON ITS TAIL	STEGOSAURUS
ASH FROM AN ASTEROID IMPACT ON THIS PENINSULA IN MEXICO MAY HAVE COVERED THE GLOBE AND KILLED THE DINOSAURS	THE YUCATAN
IN 1922 THE FIRST OF THESE TO BE DISCOVERED CAME FROM A MOMMY PROTOCERATOPS	DINOSAUR EGGS
THIS "KING" OF THE CARNOSAURS WASN'T FROM THE JURASSIC PERIOD, BUT THE LATE CRETACEOUS	T-REX
THE LATIN RAPERE, "TO CARRY OFF", GAVE US THIS 6-LETTER TERM FOR BIRDS OF PREY AND FOR A TYPE OF DINOSAUR	RAPTOR
TYPE OF A TAILED OBJECT THAT HIT JUPITER IN 1994 AND PERHAPS HIT EARTH IN 65 MILLION B.C., DOOMING THE DINOSAURS	COMET
FOUND EVEN IN DINOSAURS, THIS WORLD'S OLDEST KNOWN DISEASE IS STILL CONSIDERED INCURABLE	ARTHRITIS
IN 2000, THIS WRITER HAD A NEW SPECIES OF DINOSAUR NAMED FOR HIM	MICHAEL CRICHTON
THE STUDY OF FOSSILS	PALEONTOLOGY
THE ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF THIS -OLOGY HAS 35 COMPLETE DINOSAUR SKELETONS	PALEONTOLOGY
500-MILLION-YEAR-OLD FISH ARE THE FIRST KNOWN FOSSILS OF THIS BACKBONED GROUP OF ANIMALS	VERTEBRATES
ITS TOOTH, MENTIONED IN "MACK THE KNIFE", IS GEORGIA'S STATE FOSSIL AND CAN DATE BACK 375 MILLION YEARS	SHARK
TRILOBITES WERE AMONG THE FIRST CREATURES TO HAVE THESE; THEY WERE COMPOUND CRYSTALS THAT SURVIVE AS FOSSILS	EYES
FROM THE GREEK MEANING "STUDY OF ANCIENT EXISTENCE", IT'S THE STUDY OF PREHISTORIC PLANTS AND ANIMALS FROM FOSSIL REMAINS	PALEONTOLOGY
IT DESCRIBES THE MOUTH OF THE ANCIENT HADOSAUR	DUCK-BILLED
THE NAME OF THE ICHTHYORNIS COMES FROM THE GREEK FOR "BIRD" AND THIS TYPE OF ANIMAL	FISH
IT WAS SIMILAR TO A MAMMOTH BUT IT HAD DIFFERENT TEETH	MASTODON
CONTINENT THAT WAS HOME TO THE ALBERTOSAURUS	NORTH AMERICA
THE FOSSILS OF THESE COMMON 3-LOBED PRIMITIVE ARTHROPODS ARE USEFUL DATE MARKERS	TRILOBITES

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