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Middle round (ages 9–11): Dinosaurs. 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. What body feature sets dinosaurs apart from other reptiles like lizards?
- A. scaly skin
- B. legs straight under the body
- C. laying eggs
2. 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
3. What did Iguanodon have on the end of each hand?
- A. a sticky pad
- B. a big thumb spike
- C. a long feather
4. Which scientist made up the name for dinosaurs in 1842?
- A. Earl Douglass
- B. Charles Darwin
- C. Richard Owen
5. Dinosaur National Monument is in two states. In which one can you see its dinosaur fossils?
- A. Colorado
- B. Wyoming
- C. Utah
6. Birds today come from which group of dinosaurs?
- A. theropods
- B. ceratopsians
- C. sauropods
7. The duck-billed dinosaur Maiasaura has a name that means what?
- A. fast thief lizard
- B. three-horned face
- C. good mother lizard
8. Fossil footprints and fossil dinosaur poo are what kind of fossils?
- A. body fossils
- B. living fossils
- C. trace fossils
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The key (for the host: fold this page back)
- B: legs straight under the body. Lizards and crocodiles have legs that sprawl out to the sides.
- C: an asteroid hitting Earth. It happened about 66 million years ago, and birds were the only dinosaurs to survive.
- B: a big thumb spike. Scientists think it may have used the spike to defend itself.
- C: Richard Owen. He used three British fossils, including Iguanodon and Megalosaurus, to name the group.
- C: Utah. Visitors can see and touch real fossils at the park's Wall of Bones.
- A: theropods. Theropods walked on two legs, like T. rex and Velociraptor.
- C: good mother lizard. Maiasaura nested in big groups, and parents may have cared for their babies.
- C: trace fossils. Body fossils are the actual remains, like bones, teeth and shells.
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