Week 2 Prehistoric Alabama TEST

The recorded age of man is

• 6,000

• 60 billion

• 6 million

When an animal no longer lives on earth it is

• prehistoric

• fossilized

• extinct

The two most common dinosaurs living in Alabama were the Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus Rex.

• true

• false

Ancient mammals aren't living today because

• they froze to death during the Ice Age

• they were killed by disease

• no one knows for sure

The first people in Alabama were

• explorers

• the Paleo Indians

In Alabama there are few dinosaur fossils because topsoil has covered the remains.

• true

• false

Dinosaur remains are found near cretaceous rock, and Alabama has more of it than just about any other place in the eastern United States.

• true

• false

he most common ancient mammal in Alabama is believed to be the mammoth.

• true

• false

Many dinosaur digs are located on a line running east to west through the counties of Dallas,

Montgomery and Russell because ____________.

• most of the state's vegetation is located here

• dinosaurs got stuck in the quicksand located here and died

• this is the side of an ancient shoreline where dino bodies were washed to shore

The time period between the death of dinosaurs and the beginning of man living on the Earth is called

• Age of Mammals

• Age of Reptiles

• Age of Man