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WorksheetsYour Inner Reptile
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
What do humans have built into our skin that reptiles do not
spikes
dead skin cells
moisturizers
pigment
Anatomists can learn a lot about a fossilized organism from its
skin
color
size
teeth
Scientists believe that whiskers were first used as
thermoregulator
increase attractiveness for mating
food finder
sensory organ
The earliest mammals survived the mass extinction of dinosaurs because
they got lucky
they were bigger and stronger
they lived in burrows
they were still living in water
Baron George Cuvier boasted that he could
reconstruct entire skeleton from one tooth
Predict the next mass extinction
Reconstruct the inner ear of early mammals
identify exact date dinosaurs went extinct
Dr. Shubin's friend that loves the rocks in South Africa is
Dr. McDonnel
Roger Smith
Abigail Tucker
Michael Berrymen
Our ears are
super cool!
a matched pair
for piercing only
super sensitive
The Bay of Fundy is a great place to fossil hunt because
it has huge tides
Its all lava rock
It's all sedimentary rock
Easy to access
In order to reproduce on land, instead of water, organisms had to come up with a way to
keep the embryo from drying out
move through sand and rock
find a mate
have lots of offsring
Reptile teeth are simplistic compared to human teeth because
they don't eat plants
they eat a lot of meat
they constantly grow multiple sets
they have cuspids
The largest mass extinction was the
Triassic extinction
Permian extinction
Mammalian opportunity
Jurassic extinction
The reptilian jaw bones were modified for mammals into
ear bones
sinuses
bicuspids
very complex teeth
