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Middle round (ages 9–11): Dinosaurs · Planet Earth. Pages: the ten question cards, two answer sheets to a page (print one page per two teams), and the key on the last page, to fold back.
1. Birds today come from which group of dinosaurs?
- A. sauropods
- B. theropods
- C. ceratopsians
2. Near Grand Canyon Village, about how deep is the canyon from rim to river?
- A. about one mile
- B. about 100 feet
- C. about 10 miles
3. The duck-billed dinosaur Maiasaura has a name that means what?
- A. good mother lizard
- B. three-horned face
- C. fast thief lizard
4. What instrument records the shaking of an earthquake?
- A. a barometer
- B. a seismograph
- C. a thermometer
5. Which scientist made up the name for dinosaurs in 1842?
- A. Richard Owen
- B. Charles Darwin
- C. Earl Douglass
6. What did Iguanodon have on the end of each hand?
- A. a big thumb spike
- B. a sticky pad
- C. a long feather
7. What do most scientists think was the main cause of the dinosaurs dying out?
- A. mammals eating their eggs
- B. a giant flood
- C. an asteroid hitting Earth
8. Fossil footprints and fossil dinosaur poo are what kind of fossils?
- A. trace fossils
- B. living fossils
- C. body fossils
9. What body feature sets dinosaurs apart from other reptiles like lizards?
- A. legs straight under the body
- B. scaly skin
- C. laying eggs
10. Dinosaur National Monument is in two states. In which one can you see its dinosaur fossils?
- A. Wyoming
- B. Utah
- C. Colorado
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The key (for the host: fold this page back)
- B: theropods. Theropods walked on two legs, like T. rex and Velociraptor.
- A: about one mile. That is about 5,000 feet straight down from the South Rim.
- A: good mother lizard. Maiasaura nested in big groups, and parents may have cared for their babies.
- B: a seismograph. It draws a zig-zag line called a seismogram.
- A: Richard Owen. He used three British fossils, including Iguanodon and Megalosaurus, to name the group.
- A: a big thumb spike. Scientists think it may have used the spike to defend itself.
- C: an asteroid hitting Earth. It happened about 66 million years ago, and birds were the only dinosaurs to survive.
- A: trace fossils. Body fossils are the actual remains, like bones, teeth and shells.
- A: legs straight under the body. Lizards and crocodiles have legs that sprawl out to the sides.
- B: Utah. Visitors can see and touch real fossils at the park's Wall of Bones.
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