Learning About Extinct Organisms!

Endangered means...

• In danger of going extinct, only a few members of the species alive.

• Entire species is no longer alive.

• An animal is in danger of a predator.

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What does it mean if something is extinct?

• A plant or animal that could once be found living on Earth but is now gone.

• A plant or animal that is currently living in our natural world.

• An animal that smells bad.

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What is a fossil?

• The remains or traces of prehistoric life.

• A type of food that dinosaurs ate.

• The brain of a dinosaur.

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True or False: All fossils come from dinosaurs.

• True

• False

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What kind of information can we learn from fossils? (hint: more than one)

• What an animal ate

• The shape and size of an animal

• Where the animal lived

• Whether an animal was predator or prey

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What do you call a scientist that studies fossils?

• Ecologist

• Paleontologist

• Zoologist

• Fossilologist

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What are the names of the different types of fossils we learned about today? (Pick 3)

• Cast Fossil

• Giant Fossil

• Trace fossil

• Whole Body Fossil

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Which of the following animals lived 40,000 years ago and still lives today? (hint: more than one)

• Giant Sloth

• Mountain Lion

• Saber-toothed cat

• Mammoth

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