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Dinosaur Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| dinosaur | one of various extinct reptiles that lived approximately 100 million years ago and included the largest land creatures. |
| extinct | no longer existing, as an animal species. |
| fossil | the remains or trace of a living organism from an earlier geologic age, embedded in earth or rock. |
| herbivore | an animal that feeds on plants. |
| paleontology | the scientific study of life in the past geologic periods through examination of animal and plant fossils. |
| predator | an animal that eats the flesh of others. |
| prehistoric | of, pertaining to, or existing in a time prior to written history. |
| skeleton | the inner framework of bones and cartilage in vertebrate animals, which supports and protects the softer body parts, or the hard external shell of invertebrates and some vertebrates. |
| prey | the object of a hunt or pursuit, usually one animal caught and eaten by another. |
| carnivore | a flesh-eating animal, especially a meat-eating mammal. Including a plant that eats insects. |
| omnivore | an animal that eats plants and meat. |