Dinosaurs And Paleontology Trivia Quiz II

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What is the estimated percentage of extinction during the Permian-Triassic extinction event?

       a. About half of the vertebrae went extinct
       b. About 60 percent
       c. About 95 percent of Earth life was destroyed
       d. Around 70 percent of marine life died


Meganeura was a giant insect, closely resembling…

       a. Acockroach
       b. A dragonfly
       c. A butterfly
       d. A wasp


What mode of locomotion was used by the Ichthyosaurus?

       a. Running on the ground
       b. Flying in the air
       c. Swimming in the ocean
       d. Jumping on the trees


In which epoch did the crocodiles appear?

       a. Eocene
       b. Oligocene
       c. Paleocene
       d. Miocene


Velociraptor means…?

       a. Swift seizer
       b. Fast dinosaur
       c. Fearsome hunter
       d. Agile hunter


Which of the following well-known dinosaurs had three horns?

       a. Velociraptor
       b. Stegosaurus
       c. Triceratops
       d. Apatosaurus


Which of the following would have been the tallest?

       a. Tyrannosaurus Rex
       b. Apatosaurus
       c. Shantungosaurus
       d. Quetzalcoatlus


How many clawed digits did the Tyrannosaurus Rex bear on each of his front arms?

       a. Two
       b. One
       c. Three
       d. Four


Argentavis magnificens, which lived about 6 million years ago, was a…?

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


Megatherium, an extinct animal the size of an elephant, was a mammal that is closely related to which present-day animal?

       a. Dog
       b. Elephant
       c. Sloth
       d. Giraffe


Which was the largest land predator ever?

       a. T. Rex
       b. Spinosaurus
       c. Giganotosaurus
       d. Stegosaurus


Synthetoceras was a mammal that lived in North America about 8 million years ago. It looked like a horse, except for one detail. What sort of detail?

       a. It had a horn on its snout
       b. It had 6 legs
       c. It was a carnivore
       d. It had a flat head


A flying reptile is called…

       a. A sauropod
       b. A pterosaur
       c. A dinosaur
       d. A plateosaurid


Which had longer tusks, mammoths or mastodons?

       a. Mammoths
       b. Same length
       c. Mastodons
       d. Mastodons did not have tusks.


What is another name for the Sabre-tooth tiger?

       a. Smilodon
       b. Arctodus simus
       c. Carcharodon
       d. Dunkleosteus




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