{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/dinosaurs",
 "id": "dinosaurs",
 "title": "Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life",
 "category": "science",
 "subject": "Paleontology",
 "levels": [
  "k-2",
  "3-5",
  "6-8"
 ],
 "description": "Famous dinosaurs, eras and fossil words.",
 "tags": [
  "dinosaurs",
  "fossils",
  "paleontology"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Dinosaur / term",
 "backLabel": "Facts",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Tyrannosaurus rex",
   "A huge meat-eating dinosaur with a powerful bite and tiny arms"
  ],
  [
   "Triceratops",
   "A plant eater with three horns and a bony frill"
  ],
  [
   "Stegosaurus",
   "A plant eater with back plates and a spiked tail"
  ],
  [
   "Velociraptor",
   "A small feathered meat eater about the size of a turkey"
  ],
  [
   "Brachiosaurus",
   "A tall, long-necked plant eater"
  ],
  [
   "Diplodocus",
   "A very long plant eater with a whip-like tail"
  ],
  [
   "Apatosaurus",
   "A huge long-necked plant eater, once called Brontosaurus"
  ],
  [
   "Ankylosaurus",
   "An armored plant eater with a club tail"
  ],
  [
   "Spinosaurus",
   "A large meat eater with a sail on its back that lived near water"
  ],
  [
   "Allosaurus",
   "A large meat eater from the Jurassic"
  ],
  [
   "Giganotosaurus",
   "A giant meat eater from South America"
  ],
  [
   "Parasaurolophus",
   "A duck-billed dinosaur with a long hollow crest"
  ],
  [
   "Iguanodon",
   "A plant eater with thumb spikes"
  ],
  [
   "Pachycephalosaurus",
   "A dinosaur with a thick domed skull"
  ],
  [
   "Compsognathus",
   "A tiny chicken-sized meat eater"
  ],
  [
   "Argentinosaurus",
   "One of the largest known land animals, a titanosaur"
  ],
  [
   "Archaeopteryx",
   "An early feathered animal linking dinosaurs and birds"
  ],
  [
   "Microraptor",
   "A small four-winged feathered dinosaur"
  ],
  [
   "Oviraptor",
   "A feathered dinosaur whose name means egg thief, though it was probably a good parent"
  ],
  [
   "Maiasaura",
   "A duck-billed dinosaur whose name means good mother lizard"
  ],
  [
   "Gallimimus",
   "A fast, ostrich-like dinosaur"
  ],
  [
   "Utahraptor",
   "A big raptor from Utah"
  ],
  [
   "Dilophosaurus",
   "An early meat eater with two crests"
  ],
  [
   "Carnotaurus",
   "A meat eater with horns over its eyes"
  ],
  [
   "Protoceratops",
   "A small horned dinosaur that lived in Mongolia"
  ],
  [
   "Pteranodon",
   "A flying reptile (pterosaur) that was not a dinosaur"
  ],
  [
   "Quetzalcoatlus",
   "A giant pterosaur with a huge wingspan"
  ],
  [
   "Mosasaurus",
   "A giant sea reptile, not a dinosaur"
  ],
  [
   "Plesiosaur",
   "A long-necked sea reptile, not a dinosaur"
  ],
  [
   "Ichthyosaur",
   "A dolphin-shaped sea reptile"
  ],
  [
   "Dimetrodon",
   "A sail-backed animal older than dinosaurs, not a dinosaur"
  ],
  [
   "Woolly mammoth",
   "An ice age elephant relative with long tusks"
  ],
  [
   "Saber-toothed cat",
   "An ice age cat with long upper teeth"
  ],
  [
   "Megalodon",
   "A huge extinct shark"
  ],
  [
   "Trilobite",
   "An ancient sea arthropod found as fossils"
  ],
  [
   "Mesozoic Era",
   "The age of dinosaurs, about 252 to 66 million years ago"
  ],
  [
   "Triassic Period",
   "First part of the Mesozoic; the first dinosaurs appear"
  ],
  [
   "Jurassic Period",
   "Middle part of the Mesozoic; long-necked giants and early birds"
  ],
  [
   "Cretaceous Period",
   "Last part of the Mesozoic; T. rex and Triceratops lived"
  ],
  [
   "How long ago did non-bird dinosaurs die out?",
   "About 66 million years ago"
  ],
  [
   "What likely caused the dinosaur extinction?",
   "A giant asteroid hit Earth"
  ],
  [
   "Where did the asteroid land?",
   "Near the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico (Chicxulub)"
  ],
  [
   "Do dinosaurs still live today?",
   "Yes, as birds"
  ],
  [
   "Fossil",
   "The preserved remains or traces of ancient life"
  ],
  [
   "Paleontologist",
   "A scientist who studies fossils"
  ],
  [
   "Trace fossil",
   "Evidence like footprints or burrows"
  ],
  [
   "Coprolite",
   "Fossilized dung"
  ],
  [
   "Amber",
   "Fossilized tree resin that can trap insects"
  ],
  [
   "Mold fossil",
   "An imprint left in rock"
  ],
  [
   "Petrified wood",
   "Wood turned to stone by minerals"
  ],
  [
   "Herbivore",
   "Plant eater"
  ],
  [
   "Carnivore",
   "Meat eater"
  ],
  [
   "Omnivore",
   "Eats both plants and meat"
  ],
  [
   "Sauropod",
   "A giant long-necked, four-legged plant eater"
  ],
  [
   "Theropod",
   "A two-legged mostly meat-eating dinosaur"
  ],
  [
   "Ornithopod",
   "A plant-eating dinosaur like duck-billed hadrosaurs"
  ],
  [
   "Ceratopsian",
   "A horned, frilled dinosaur like Triceratops"
  ],
  [
   "Dinosaur means",
   "Terrible lizard"
  ],
  [
   "Who coined the word dinosaur in 1842?",
   "Richard Owen"
  ],
  [
   "Mary Anning",
   "A fossil collector who found early marine reptile skeletons in England"
  ],
  [
   "Dinosaur National Monument",
   "A park in Utah and Colorado with fossil bones"
  ],
  [
   "Sue",
   "A famous T. rex skeleton at the Field Museum in Chicago"
  ],
  [
   "Longest dinosaurs",
   "Some sauropods grew over 30 meters long"
  ],
  [
   "Egg-laying",
   "Dinosaurs laid eggs in nests"
  ],
  [
   "Feathers",
   "Many dinosaurs, especially raptors, had feathers"
  ],
  [
   "Pangaea",
   "The supercontinent where early dinosaurs lived"
  ]
 ]
}