GA 8 SCI - Comparing Prehistoric Animals

What is the definition of an invertebrate?

• animal with a backbone

• animal with a tail

• animal without a backbone

• bacteria

Which prehistoric animal looked like a feathered dinosaur?

• Eohippus

• Tyrannosaurus rex

• Archaeopteryx

• Brachiosaurus

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Match the following organism to its description:

• earliest known bird

• Eohippus

• largest flesh-eating animal

• Compsognathus

• earliest known horse

• Tyrannosaurus rex

• largest four-footed animal

• Archaeopteryx

• smallest dinosaur

• Brachiosaurus

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Match the following words to its synonym (word with a similar meaning):

• head

• fossil

• find

• skull

• trace

• facts

• evidence

• resemble

• looked like

• discover

Which organism had the longest neck?

(a)  

In what year were the first dinosaur eggs discovered in Mongolia?

(a)  

Which of the following animals are considered "living fossils?"

SELECT ALL CORRECT ANSWERS

• king crab

• tuatara

• Tyrannosaurus rex

• Pteranodon

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2