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Terrible Lizard - Although the word dinosaur means 'terrible lizard', dinosaurs were not lizards.The word dinosaur means?

       a. Terrible Lizard
       b. Lizard Monster
       c. Big Beast
       d. Extinct Lizard


Their diet consisted of vegetation - Triceratops literally means 'three horned face'.Which is true of the triceratops?

       a. They lived about 10 million years ago
       b. Their diet consisted of vegetation
       c. They were fast runners
       d. They were about 10 feet long


Elephant - Woolly mammoths were not much larger than present-day African elephants.First found near the Lena River in Siberia in 1806, by botanist Mikhail Adams, the wooly mammoth, aka Mammuthus primigenius, turned out to be an extinct species in what family?

       a. Rhinoceros
       b. Elephant
       c. Hippopotamus
       d. Tiger


Lizard-hipped vs bird-hipped - In 1888, Harry Seeley classified dinosaurs based on their hip structure into two orders named saurischia and ornithischia.There are two orders of dinosaurs - Saurischia and Ornithischia. What's the difference between them?

       a. Lizard-hipped vs bird-hipped
       b. Horse-footed vs cat-footed
       c. Insect-jawed vs fish-jawed
       d. Backboned vs non-backboned


Barosaurus - Some Barosaurus adults measured more than 85 feet in length and weighed more than 22 tons.Which of the following dinosaurs would have been the largest?

       a. Stegosaurus
       b. Barosaurus
       c. Citipati
       d. Scelidosaurus


Mesozoic Era - The Mesozoic era began in the wake of the Permian-Triassic event, the largest known mass extinction in Earth's history.Birds, mammals and flowering plants first appeared approximately 240 million to 65 million years ago, in what "Age of Reptiles"?

       a. Mesozoic Era
       b. Cenozoic Era
       c. Paleozoic Era
       d. Protozoic Era


Bird - The Archaeopteryx lived around 150 million years ago in the late Jurassic period. Found fossilized in the rocks of the Jurassic age, Archaeopteryx is one of the oldest known examples of what animal?

       a. Arachnid
       b. Bird
       c. Fish
       d. Mammal


Griffin - Herodotus was a Greek historian who lived in the fifth century BC.Herodotus may have been describing fossilized dinosaur skeletons when he wrote about what mythical eagle-lion hybrid?

       a. Basilisk
       b. Chimera
       c. Griffin
       d. Sphinx


Were they cold or warm-blooded? - Ectothermic animals derive their source of body heat from the environment.In paleontology, the debate whether dinosaurs were endothermic or ectothermic is really a debate over what?

       a. How did they become extinct?
       b. Were they cold or warm-blooded?
       c. Were they related to birds?
       d. How did they get along with the Flintstones?


Oviraptor - The Oviraptor was first discovered by paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews in 1924.Although its name literally means "egg thief," what dinosaur hatched the first eggs ever discovered by human beings, in Mongolia in 1923?

       a. Triceratops
       b. Oviraptor
       c. Megalodon
       d. Tyrannosaurus rex


Swimming - Ichthyosaurs were large marine reptiles that resembled dolphins.How would the different species of Ichthyosauria have gotten around?

       a. Swimming
       b. On two feet
       c. Flying
       d. On four feet


Counting tree rings - In many types of wood, dendrochronology can date the time at which tree rings were formed to an exact calendar year.If you use dendrochronology to date something, what are you doing?

       a. Sketching water erosion in rocks
       b. Counting tree rings
       c. Measuring carbon radiation
       d. Studying teeth


Plants - Due to its size, the stegosaurus would have to eat lots of vegetation to meet its daily requirements.What did the stegosaurus' diet consist of?

       a. Plants
       b. Animals
       c. Plants and Animals
       d. Unknown



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