Dinosaurs #11

Brandon likes dinosaurs. He is a five year old boy who has lots of _____ and ______ about dinosaurs.

• toys, books

• insects, bugs

• books, books

• papers, folders

He often watches ________ __________ about dinosaurs, and is even starting to look for information about dinosaurs using the Internet.

• television programs

• dancing floors

• book chapters

• text messages

Lots of kids and adults are _________ with dinosaurs. People who are interested in dinosaurs want to learn the names of the dinosaurs, what they look like, what they ate, and when they lived.

• agitated

• overwhelmed

• fascinated

• disgusted

Dinosaurs are creatures that have _______ like tyrannosaurus, stegosaurus, brontosaurus, and pterodactyl.

• tails

• names

• heads

• museums

That last one is really hard to _____ because the ‘p’ at the beginning is silent. Some dinosaurs are very large, but

some are small.

• understand

• spell

• find

• collect

Some can swim, and some, like the pterodactyl, can _____. A large number of dinosaurs walked the Earth.

• run

• walk

• swim

• fly

A large number of dinosaurs walked the Earth. Some dinosaurs were carnivores, which means they ate mostly meat, others were herbivores, which means they ate mostly plants, and still others were omnivores,

which means they ate both _____ and _____ in their diets.

• Animals, Plants

• animals, pants

• animals, plants

• plants, insects

Even after more than one hundred years of study, there are still differences in the ______ about how dinosaurs became _______.

• silhouette, strong

• books, fragile

• theories, extinct

• ideas, united

Most paleontologists, which are experts on dinosaurs, believe dinosaurs died out because of a change in climate which either killed them quickly, or affected the _____ ______ available to them, which led to their starvation and death.

• top theories

• favorite friends

• birthday parties

• food supply

Even though dinosaurs have been _______ for

tens of millions of years, people continue to be __________ by them.

• extinct, fascinated

• Extinct, distracted

• researched, agitated

• Researched, fascinated