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Big round (ages 12 and up): 🦕 Dinosaurs · 🌋 Planet Earth. Ten questions. Tap a box to see the answer.
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The ten, for a host reading aloud
- 1.Velociraptor walked on how many toes of each foot?
- A two
- B four
- C three
- 2.Which is Earth's thickest layer, at about 2,900 kilometers?
- A the crust
- B the mantle
- C the inner core
- 3.Oviraptor's name means egg thief. Whose eggs was it actually found with?
- A Protoceratops eggs
- B its own eggs
- C crocodile eggs
- 4.The Challenger Deep, the deepest known part of the ocean, lies in which trench?
- A the Mariana Trench
- B the Puerto Rico Trench
- C the Aleutian Trench
- 5.Which animals were the first with backbones to fly by flapping their wings?
- A pterosaurs
- B bats
- C birds
- 6.Which paleontologist found the Carnegie Quarry in Utah in 1909?
- A Barnum Brown
- B Earl Douglass
- C Richard Owen
- 7.Birds have bird-like hips, but scientists group them with which dinosaurs?
- A the flying pterosaurs
- B the bird-hipped ornithischians
- C the lizard-hipped saurischians
- 8.The Morrison Formation, where Dinosaur National Monument's fossils come from, dates from which time?
- A the Late Cretaceous
- B the Late Jurassic
- C the Early Triassic
- 9.Dinosaurs, pterosaurs and crocodiles all belong to which larger reptile group?
- A the synapsids
- B the amphibians
- C the archosaurs
- 10.What is the most common way a dinosaur bone turns into a fossil?
- A evaporation
- B erosion
- C petrification
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- A: two. It held its curved sickle claw up off the ground, so its tracks show no claw marks. Source: Natural History Museum, London
- B: the mantle. NASA compares the hot rock of the mantle to thick, slow-moving caramel. Source: NASA
- B: its own eggs. Some oviraptorid fossils were found sitting on their nests, keeping their eggs safe. Source: Natural History Museum, London
- A: the Mariana Trench. It is about 10,935 meters deep, in the western Pacific Ocean. Source: NOAA National Ocean Service
- A: pterosaurs. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles, not dinosaurs, and appeared about 215 million years ago. Source: Natural History Museum, London
- B: Earl Douglass. His first find there was eight connected tailbones of an Apatosaurus. Source: National Park Service
- C: the lizard-hipped saurischians. The hip names were chosen before scientists knew birds are dinosaurs. Source: National Park Service
- B: the Late Jurassic. Diplodocus, Allosaurus and Stegosaurus all lived in the Late Jurassic. Source: National Park Service
- C: the archosaurs. Archosaurs first appeared about 251 million years ago, near the start of the Triassic. Source: Natural History Museum, London
- C: petrification. Water seeps into buried bone and leaves minerals behind, turning it to stone. Source: Natural History Museum, London
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