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Big round (ages 12 and up): 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. The Morrison Formation, where Dinosaur National Monument's fossils come from, dates from which time?
- A. the Late Jurassic
- B. the Late Cretaceous
- C. the Early Triassic
2. Birds have bird-like hips, but scientists group them with which dinosaurs?
- A. the lizard-hipped saurischians
- B. the flying pterosaurs
- C. the bird-hipped ornithischians
3. Velociraptor walked on how many toes of each foot?
- A. three
- B. two
- C. four
4. What is the most common way a dinosaur bone turns into a fossil?
- A. evaporation
- B. petrification
- C. erosion
5. Which paleontologist found the Carnegie Quarry in Utah in 1909?
- A. Earl Douglass
- B. Barnum Brown
- C. Richard Owen
6. Oviraptor's name means egg thief. Whose eggs was it actually found with?
- A. crocodile eggs
- B. Protoceratops eggs
- C. its own eggs
7. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs and crocodiles all belong to which larger reptile group?
- A. the synapsids
- B. the amphibians
- C. the archosaurs
8. Which animals were the first with backbones to fly by flapping their wings?
- A. bats
- B. birds
- C. pterosaurs
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The key (for the host: fold this page back)
- A: the Late Jurassic. Diplodocus, Allosaurus and Stegosaurus all lived in the Late Jurassic.
- A: the lizard-hipped saurischians. The hip names were chosen before scientists knew birds are dinosaurs.
- B: two. It held its curved sickle claw up off the ground, so its tracks show no claw marks.
- B: petrification. Water seeps into buried bone and leaves minerals behind, turning it to stone.
- A: Earl Douglass. His first find there was eight connected tailbones of an Apatosaurus.
- C: its own eggs. Some oviraptorid fossils were found sitting on their nests, keeping their eggs safe.
- C: the archosaurs. Archosaurs first appeared about 251 million years ago, near the start of the Triassic.
- C: pterosaurs. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles, not dinosaurs, and appeared about 215 million years ago.
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