Dinosaurs And Paleontology Trivia Quiz

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The word dinosaur means?

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


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


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


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


Which of the following dinosaurs would have been the largest?

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


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


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


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


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?


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


How would the different species of Ichthyosauria have gotten around?

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


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


What did the stegosaurus' diet consist of?

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




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