WorksheetsLife Science Week 5 Quizzizz Review
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
How could you learn about ancient life in a certain area?
Look for animal bones.
Take photographs of plants and animals.
Look for fossils.
Make impressions of animal tracks.
Which ancient animals lived about 65 million years ago?
sea turtles
dinosaurs
fish
mammals
Which of these do scientists use to learn about ancient life?
photographs
telescopes
plants and animals
fossils
The Eohippus, an ancient mammal, was related to the
guinea pig
horse
buffalo
ostrich
Scientists have many ideas about what might have caused dinosaurs to become extinct. Which of the following could best be added to the diagram below? The diagram includes World Climate was becoming cooler and An asteroid hit Earth and made the air change.
volcano eruptions made the air harder to breathe
hurricanes flooded the land
tornadoes destroyed habitats
earthquakes killed the dinosaurs
This illustration shows a trilobite fossil, a small sea creature that was probably related to _______
crabs and spiders
dinosaurs
ancient plants
ancient mammals
Which scientist studies ancient life on Earth?
geologist
biologist
paleontologist
chemist
Which of the following was not an advantage of big, tall dinosaurs?
fighting off meat eaters
outrunning predators
reaching food in treetops
protecting their eggs
Where did Mary Anning, called the Princess of Paleontology, discover many fossils in England?
in the desert
in the mountains
at the bottom of lakes and rivers
on the beach
Explain why there are no dinosaurs alive today. Check all that apply. (short answer question)
A large rock hit the Earth and changed the atmosphere so there are no more dinosaurs.
An asteroid made the air change and it got colder and it was harder to survive.
The dinosaurs are being held captive somewhere and nobody has found them.
Volcanoes in other parts of the world may have made the air hard to breathe.
