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ø) repiiles b) amphibians c) mammals

{2 Did dinosours live only during the Jurassic period?

(33 All animals with a name ending

in ‘saurus’ are dinosaurs an

True or false?

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of dinosaurs have been

identified and named so far?

a) around 70

b) over 700

c) over 7,000

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‘5 } Did all dinosaurs live on land?

6} For roughly how many million years did dinosaurs exist? a) 16 b) 65 c) 165

(7) When did the first dinosaur appear on the planet?

a) around 2 million years ago

b) around 25 million years ago

c) around 250 million years ago

(8) The word ‘dinosaur’ means:

a) loud lizard

b) terrible lizard

c) giant lizard

a) Asia b) Europe c) North America

{2 Some scientists think Tyrannosauruses left rotting meat

stuck between their teeth, that might have infected their prey with dangerous bacteria when they bit them _ True or false? N

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into the top window

(53 A Tyrannosaurus’ powerful mouth could bite off

and hold a chunk of meat the weight of a rhino

(8) The name Tyrannosaurus rex means:

a) giant royal lizard

b) prince of the meat-eaters

c) tyrant lizard king

|} The heaviest sauropod

2 A Europasaurus was

: Did scientists once

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Sauropods

Sauropods were a group of large plant-eaters

with bulky bodies, small heads and long necks

and tails The biggest and the least intelligent

dinosaurs belonged to the

sauropod family

brain weighed around

the same as:

a) an apple ⁄ : | :

b) a grapefruit :

c) a melon

a sauropod that was

only the size of a bull

True or false?

think that sauropods

lived under water?

this Sauroposeidon could

have peered intothe `-_y

top window of a:

a) three-floor building

b) six-floor building

c) nine-floor building

c8) Squropods may hove wolked

(6) This is a Mamenchisaurus It was so huge

‘7: For around how many

“8 Which of these is the

that it had to eat at least 100,000 Lệ

calories a day to survive Ỳ

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million years were 38 ~

sauropods on the Earth? “OL

a) 70 b) 140 c) 210

name of a real sauropod

whose fossils were found

near a famous river?

a) Gangesaurus

b) Nilesaurus

c) Amazonsaurus

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2° A Diplodocus’ neck was

33 A Diplodocus’ tail was

@ Diplodocus

A Diplodocus was a huge, plant-eating

sauropod that lived between 155 and

145 million years ago It had a small

head, and a long neck and tail

the size of a person’s:

a) toe ob) fist c) head

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a) raking its teeth along branches

b) sucking leaves from branches

c) pulling leaves from branches with its tongue W

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£7) Diplodocus fossils

£8» Is it more likely that

a Diplodocus produced

in one day could

probably fill a car

True or false?

have only ever

been found in:

£2} Were ceratopsians’ neck

frills made of bone or muscle?

(2) Which of these types of dinosaurs would not have

eaten Protoceratops, an ancestor of Triceratops?

a) dromaeosaurs b) s†tegosqurs c) tyrannosqurs

i 4) Was Triceratops the biggest ceratopsian?

one of the smallest types

of ceratopsians They were

Š only twice the size of a:

‘63 Were male ceratopsians’ frills and horns

| usually larger or smaller than females’?

(7) All ceratopsians were born with similar-shaped Ñ

heads, and they only developed their distinctive _* horns and frills as they grew older

True or false?

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its neck frill Was this dinosaur

called Medusaceratops

or Sirenceratops?

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A Triceratops was a plant-eating, rhinoceros-like

ceratopsian with three horns on its face and a bony frill around its neck It lived between 72 and 65

million years ago

3 In which kind of environment did Triceratops live?

a) wetlands b) rainforests c) deserts v2

like rhinos do?

to how many teeth in its

mouth at any one time?

a) 400

b) 800

c) 1,000

‘5: A Triceratops is most likely to have used its neck

frill for which two of these purposes?

a) to reflect sunlight into predators’ eyes

b) to control its body temperature

c) to attract mates

“6} The horns above a Triceratops’ eyes were as long as:

a) skateboards b) golf clubs c) surfboards

ΠStegosaurs

Stegosaurs were a group of plant-eating dinosaurs

that were closely related to ceratopsians They had double rows of plates and spikes along their backs and sharp spikes on the ends of their tails

ẤT) This long-necked stegosaur, called Miragaia, had

at least 50 bony plates along its neck and back

(8) Were a stegosaur’s plates Like GA

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stuck in its skin?

wa Stegosaurs used their tough beaks to break open

C8) In which period did stegosaurs

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a) a stegosaur’s back plate

b) the arrangement of spikes ona stegosaur’s tail ~

A Stegosaurus ‘was a small-

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(4) Stegosaurus is most likely to

have used the plates on its back

for which two of these purposes?

a) to control its body temperature

b) to attack other dinosaurs

c) to tell its own kind from

other stegosaur species

(8) The older a Stegosaurus became,

the more tail spikes it grew

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(63 In which two of

these continents have

Stegosaurus fossils been found?

a) Europe b) Asia c) North America

‘ 7} Running at top speed, a Stegosaurus could move as

quickly as the world’s fastest:

a) lawnmower b) sprinter c) bicycle

(83 Although a Stegosaurus was bigger than an elephant,

its brain was only the size of a:

a) strawberry b) lemon c) coconut

3} Might some types of

¿ The most intelligent

DromaeoSaurs

Dromaeosaurs were a fierce, meat-eating group

of dinosaurs that walked on two legs and had long claws, which they used to kill their prey They were

closely related to birds, and some had feathers

? Dromaeosaurs are nicknamed:

a) raptors b) dinobirds c) slashers

? Did dromaeosautrs slash their victims

with the claws on their fingers

or the claws on their toes?

dinosaur ever found

was a dromaeosaur

True or false?

Saurornitholestes was found -~

stuck in a fossilized wing

bone of giant flying

reptile Quetzalcoatlus

True or false?

(ó) At least how many times heavier

was the heaviest dromaeosaur,

Utahraptor, than the lightest

dromaeosaur, Microraptor?

a) 5 b) 50 c) 500

! Have dromaeosaur fossils ever

been found in Antarctica?

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intelligent, it would have

been possible to train them

to sit, roll over and shake

hands, just like dogs

True or false?

° ; Velociraptor

Velociraptors were vicious, meat-eating

They had sharp claws and

ed in hot, dry environments

dromaeosaur

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around 85 to 80 million years ago

BI Could Velociraptors have jumped onto

the backs of bigger prey to attack

them from behind?

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teeth smooth or serrated?

{3 Did Velociraptors have the shortest or

the longest skulls of all the dromaeosaurs?

(4) Could Velociraptors grow as tall as human adults?

{8 Did Velociraptors use their feathers to help them fly? (6) The Velociraptors shown in the Hollywood movie

‘7: Velociraptors may have been cannibal

f8) Could Velociraptors have used their claws

‘Jurassic Park’ were actually based on Deinonychus,

another type of dromaeosaur

True or false?

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scavengers, eating rotting flesh from

the bodies of dead dinosaurs AES

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to pull out their victims’ intestines?

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@) Ankylosaurs

Ankylosaurs were a group of plant-eating dinosaurs that were covered in tough, protective scales, spikes and bony plates Some had clubs at the end of their tails, which they swung at approaching predators

C1) Did any kinds of ankylosaurs have more than one

club at the end of their tail?

(2° Crichtonsaurus was named after Michael Crichton, the

author of a novel about dinosaurs called ‘Jurassic Park’ True or false?

C6 Ankylosaurs sometimes hit things

(6) Did Ankylosaurus break wind a lot?

so hard with their tails that

their tail clubs broke off

True or false?

{7 Euoplocepholus wos so well covered by plates

"and spikes, that the only way for a predator such

as Tyrannosaurus to injure it would be to:

a) slash at its one unprotected ankle |

b) flip it onto its back and dig into its soft belly }

c) pierce the patch of bare skin under its chin |

‘8% The first dinosaur fossil ever discovered

in Antarctica was of an ankylosaur

True or false?

2) | Hadrosaurs

Hadrosaurs were a group of gentle, plant-eating

dinosaurs that had thick, short bodies and tough

beaks Many types of hadrosaurs lived together

in large herds

“13 What does the name ‘hadrosaur’ mean?

a) bulky lizard bb) talllizard c) gentle lizard

12) Did Tyrannosaurus hunt hadrosaurs?

3} Could hadrosaurs bend their tails?

ce This is an Anatotitan How was it

most likely to have used its beak?

a) for digging up plants

b) for hitting predators

c) for making sounds >

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used the crests on their heads to: ` at a) make sounds to communicate Ấ qf

b) blow out gas from their bodies Mì ` P

c) sneeze through oy

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Có ) Giant hadrosqaur Shantungosqurus

was as heavy as:

a) 10 lions b) I0 elephanis c) 10 blue whales

‘73 Hadrosaurs grazed on four feet AS

but may have run away from

predators on two feet

True or false?

CN long did it take

a baby hadrosaur to

grow into an adult?

a) less than 6 years

b) 8-12 years

c) over 16 years

Pachycephalosaurs

Pachycephalosaurs were a group of plant-eating dinosaurs that walked on two legs They had thick

skulls and may have roamed in herds

1} What does the name ‘pachycephalosaur’ mean?

a) dome-headed lizard &

b) bone-headed lizard ¬< c) thick-headed lizard yack

oP Why might pachycephalosaurs have head butted

each other?

a) as a form of greeting

b) to fight for dominance in their herd

c) to warn others of danger

c3) Were pachycephalosaurs’ skulls so big because they housed huge brains?

4) Was Pachycephalosaurus the largest pachycephalosaur?

(8) The most commonly found pachycephalosaur ye

fossil is of which part of its body? ;

7 The thickest part of Pachycephalosaurus’ :

=~ skull was as thick as how

tales of Harry Potter, is the

name of a real pachycephalosaur?

a) Norbertodon hagridia

b) Basilisk voldemortia e@

c) Dracorex hogwartsia

Most dinosaur scientists believe that birds

are a type of dinosaur, and that they evolved

from small meat-eaters The first birds

lived alongside dinosaurs

CT1) Could all prehistoric

birds fly?

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{23 Jeholornis is the oldest bird known

‘63 Did all prehistoric

is called Hesperornis Did

it use its feet more for

diving or for walking? _ 7

birds have teeth?

© DinoSaur names

? Is the dinosaur Camelotia named after a camel or

after King Arthur’s legendary court, Camelot?

JỆ ‘NM: ‘ } Which of these is the meaning

of the dinosaur name

Megapnosaurus?

a) good happy lizard

b) small hungry lizard

c) big dead lizard

{3 One dinosaur was named

Eiffelosaurus, after the

Eiffel Tower in France

True or false?

‘4° These plant-eating dinosaurs that

lived in herds are Lambeosaurus lambei

Were they so named because they

were as gentle as lambs or were they

named to recognize the work of

dinosaur scientist, Lawrence Lambe?

(8) This is a Zupaysaurus, an early meat-eating dinosaur

with a name that means ‘devil lizard’? Was it so named because it looked like a devil or because the x

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area where its first fossil —— a i

was found is called by nee Beats = csi = ` x

dinosaur Rahonavis means:

a) fear from the rivers fish =a ``

b) danger from the trees lizard = (

c) menace from the clouds bird

{8 Eoraptor lunensis is one of the

earliest known dinosaurs Its name means:

a) night stalker from the Volcano of the Sun

b) dawn thief from the Valley of the Moon

c) dusk vandal from the Forest of the Stars

1} Which was probably

the largest dinosaur? -

3} Which dinosaur was the

biggest of the meat-eaters:

Spinosaurus or Velociraptor? ¥

{4 Argentinosaurus was

a giant plant-eating

dinosaur Where were

its fossils first discovered?

a) Europe

b) South America

c) Asia

€8) Which of these is the name of a real dinosaur giant? a) Giraffatitan ) Rhinocatitan c) Elephantitan

c7) Shantungosaurus was a giant

duck-billed dinosaur It was

the biggest animal ever

known to:

a) walk on two feet

b) climb trees

c) fly

8} The sea creature on

the right is called

These little lizard-eating -

dinosaurs are Compsognathus

They were around the size of}

— 8) hummingbird b) pigeon

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} How much heavier was

dinosaur giant Brachiosaurus

than tiny Fruitadens, which

lived alongside it?

a) 400 times

b) 4,000 times

c) 40,000 times

} Tiny dinosaur Mei holds the record

3 A fossil of feathered dinosaur Anchiornis is

This prehistoric bird is an

Iberomesornis |t was around

the size of a sparrow -

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True or false? Ỳ

for having the shortest dinosaur:

a) legs b) tail c) name

the smallest complete skeleton ever discovered

Where was it found? s

a) Ireland b) China c) Brazil

í (8) ‘Have more fossils been found of injured

meat-eaters or injured plant-eaters? |

Có ) Did any meat-eating dinosaurs

have straight claws?

(7) This giant dinosaur is a Saurophaganax It was

one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs in North

America The name Saurophaganax means: ~._

a) best of the lizard-hunters

had three toes

on each foot

True or false?

“13 How many fingers did most

plant-eaters have on each hand?

a) three b) four c) five

(3) What did some plant-eaters swallow

to help them grind up the food in

their stomachs?

a) tree bark b) stones c)

(4) Did dinosaurs eat apples?

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