Animals Through Time

How do we know that dinosaurs looked like big reptiles?

• They had similar skulls to reptiles.

• The imprint fossils of dinosaur skin is scaly.

• Dinosaurs laid eggs.

• All of the above.

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Scientists found a whale fossil in the middle of the desert because…

• Whales used to live in the desert habitat

• There used to be a lake in the middle of the desert habitat.

• The desert habitat used to be an ocean

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Which is an example of evidence that dinosaurs looked like big reptiles?

• Dinosaur skulls had similar skulls to reptiles today

• Scientists found fossils of scaly dinosaur skin

• Dinosaurs laid eggs

• All of the above

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True or False...We can learn about extinct animals by studying their fossils and comparing them to animals living today.

• True

• False

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of all animals?

• Breathing air

• Having a backbone

• Consuming food for energy

• Being able to move at some point in their life

Why do chickens living today have bigger eggs than chickens that lived a long time ago?

• Chickens now eat more than they did a long time ago

• People selected and mated the chickens that had the biggest eggs

• Chickens take vitamins that make them lay bigger eggs

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Scientists found a whale fossil in the middle of the desert because…

• whales live in the desert habitat.

• whales used to live in the desert habitat

• there used to be a lake in the middle of the desert habitat.

• the desert habitat used to be an ocean

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We can learn about extinct animals by studying their fossils and comparing them to animals living today.

• True

• False

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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 above. What kind of habitat do you think was in this location when these animals were alive?

• Grassland

• River

• Ocean

• Desert

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What did dinosaurs eat? How do scientists know?

• ate meat, some ate plants because of bones

• ate meat, some ate plants because of teeth

• ate meat because they are carnivores

• ate plants because they are herbivores

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