Africa Digs

What is a desert?

• A place with lots of moisture and vegetation

• A dry, sandy or rocky place with little vegetation

What does the word emerge mean? The whale emerged from the water.

• To disappear

• To hide

• To appear or come out of

Where did the dig take place?

• Chicago
• Africa

• Ghana
• Myrtle Beach

What was covering the skeleton?

• mud and grass

• cement and rock

• dirt and rock

The casts are white with tints of what colors?

• blue and purple

• yellow and orange

• red and green

Where did the dig take place?

• in the city

• in the desert

Who LED the dig?

• Duane Johnson

• Dr. Paul Sereno

How long does it take to clean the bones?

• 5 years and millions of hours

• 2 months and hundreds of hours

• 2 years and hundreds of hours

How long had the huge skeleton been buried for?

• 35 years

• one week

• 135 million years

Where was the team's lab?

• Room 218

• Chicago