Animals Through Time Study Guide

How do scientists know that the footprints they found came from dinosaurs?

• There was a label telling them that they were dinosaur footprints.

• The footprints were not really dinosaur footprints.

• The footprints look like animals from today.

• The footprints were next to dinosaur fossils.

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How can you tell if someone was walking just by looking at their footprints?

• There footprints are farther apart.

• There footprints are close together.

How can you tell if someone was running just by looking at their footprints?

• There footprints are farther apart.

• There footprints are close together.

What can you do to figure out if you can run faster than CeeLo?

• You can see if your steps are bigger than CeeLo's steps.

• You can see if your steps are smaller than CeeLo's steps.

• You can't tell if you can run faster than CeeLo.

• You can look it up in a book.

You take a trip to the local quarry. You walk all the way to the very bottom. At the bottom of the quarry you find the fossils shown in the image. What kind of habitat do you think was in this location when these animals were alive?

• grassland

• river

• ocean

• desert

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Why did you choose this answer? What evidence do the fossils give you to support your claim?

• The fossils give evidence that this location used to be an ocean because they are fossils of ocean animals.

• The fossils don't give any evidence.

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Kayla went swimming so she could see sharks and sea turtles. When she started swimming, she saw many tree trunks on the ocean floor. What kind of habitat do you think was in this location a long time ago?

• forest

• grassland

• ocean

• desert

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The tree trunks are evidence that the habitat in this location has changed. What other evidence could you look for to support this claim?

• fossils of plants and animals that lived in the ocean

• fossils of plants and animals that live in the forest

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Your friend Martha just found a crab shell on the ground. She's really excited because she thinks it might be a fossil. She thinks this is evidence that your town used to be an ocean a very long time ago. The picture shows you the location where she found the crab shell. Do you think your friend Martha found a fossil?

• No, the crab shell was not buried underground. It could have come from the crab restaurant.

• Yes, the crab shell proves that the location was once an ocean.

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You tell Martha that one crab shell is not enough evidence. If this habitat did use to be an ocean what are examples of evidence that would support Martha's claim?

• Evidence would be digging into the ground and finding more crab shells or fossils of other ocean animals.

• Evidence would be digging into the ground and finding fossils of dinosaurs.

• Evidence would be digging in the ground and finding fossils of animals with wings.

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