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Paleontology
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Science
8th Grade
08/01/2007

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Tyrannosarus rex means:
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Tyrant lizard king
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Miasaura means:
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Good mother lizard
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The extinction at the end of the Cretaceous knocked out what % of life on earth:
Definition
90%
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The time period that The Dinosaurs lived in is known as:
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The Mezozoic
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The supercontinent during the Triassic is known as:
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Pangea
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Who was the person who came up with the term "Dinosaur":
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Richard owen
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The direct descendants of the dinosaurs are:
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Birds
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The period of time in which most of the earth's coal comes from is known as:
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The Carboniferous
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The velociraptor belongs to what magor group of dinosaurs:
Definition
Lizard hipped dinosaurs
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What animal today most closley matches the bite force of Tryannosaurus rex:
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The american aligator
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The extinction that allowed the dinosaurs evolve is known as:
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The Permian Extinction
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Dinosaur means:
Definition
terrible lizard
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The earth formed approxamently__ years ago:
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6.4 billion years ago
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MYA stands for:
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Million Years Ago
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The T-rex named Sue sold for $__:
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$7.6 million
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Ghost Ranch in New Mexico is most famous for this dinosaur:
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Coelophysis
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True or False:
Pterodactyls are dinosaurs:
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False: dinosaurs only live on land
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True or False:
Mezozoic Mammals grew larger than Modern poodles:
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False: Mezozoic mammals were about the size of rats
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True or False:
All dinosaurs were BIG:
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False Some were even smaller than a chicken
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True or false:
Therizinisaurus was a plant eater:
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True
Term
True or False:
T-rex could bite through a car
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True
Term
Bassilosaurus is a:
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Whale
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T-rex was named in what year:
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1905
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True or False:
T-rex had 3 fingers:
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True: There is 1 specimen found near Peck Fort in Montana that had pinki fingers.
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Who discovered the first T-rex:
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Barnum Brown
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True or False:
There are gender idintified specimens of T-rex:
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True: There was 1 found in 2003 that had medulary bone, which is found in birds that are about to lay eggs
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What was the last period in the paleozoic era:
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The Permian
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What wasthe first era in the Teritary period:
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The Paleocene
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True or False:
Fossils are most often found near ancient sources of water:
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True
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What was the order of evolution for advanced animals leading up to people:
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Bacteria-fish-amphibians-reptiles-mammals
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