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Paleontology_round_1

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The dinosaur whose name means ''king of the tyrant lizards''?

a)

Triceratops

b)

Tyrannosaurus Rex

c)

Spinosaurus

d)

Archaeopteryx

2.

In the 1993 film Jurassic Park, a dilophosaurus appearance was incorrect. How dilophosaurus was shown in the mowie?

a)

No taller than a human, can extend a large neck frill, hisses, and spits venom

b)

Over 20 feet, teeth were long and curved, fairly blunt, round snout

c)

More then 20 feet, spits wenom, had green colour with dark markings

d)

Human tall, fairly bunt, round snout, a large neck frill

3.

How Paleontologist explain Stonehenge was constructed?

a)

Brachiosaurus with long neck bring the stones and built it

b)

Stonehenge was the work of the Celtic high priests known as the Druids

c)

The stones grow from the Earth

d)

Humans with excavators build it

4.

This dinosaur had two rows of plates running down its back and four or eight spikes on its tail. It had a small head and a tiny brain (about the size of a golf ball) What famous dinosaur was this?

a)

Velociraptor

b)

Stegosaurus

c)

Megalosaurus

d)

Triceratops

5.

Why Coelocanths did not extint in K-Pg extinction?

a)

They extinct

b)

Adaptation of deep marine deep water, used gills to extract oxygen from water they live in.

c)

They adapt to live in the land and extract CO2

d)

Adaptation to warm climate, breathing CO2

6.

Is Horseshoe crab is a “living fossil”?

a)

Yes

b)

No

7.

Horseshoe crab is a “living fossil”. How old Horseshoe crab is?

a)

Nearly 450 million years old

b)

230 million years old

c)

50 million years old

d)

100 million years old

8.

Who is the earliest four-legged land animal?

a)

Ichthyostega

b)

Ambulocetus

c)

Rodhocetus

d)

Pakicetus

9.

Where Ichthyostega the "four-legged fish" lived?

a)

Iceland

b)

Noth China

c)

Greenland

d)

Siberia

10.

What type of eyes had Trilobites?

a)

modern-looking eye that resembles those of today’s bees and dragonflies - compound eye

b)

Parabolic superposition

c)

Spherical lens eye

11.

When did echinoderms evolve?

a)

more than 540 million years ago

b)

350 million years ago

c)

400 million years ago

d)

345 million years ago

12.

What is the protist ancestor to the animals?

a)

Sponges

b)

There are no

c)

Myxomycota

13.

How fast could Pterosaurs fly?

a)

fly up to 80 miles an hour

b)

fly up to 180 miles an hour

c)

fly up to 50 miles an hour

d)

fly up to 130 miles an hour

14.

What physical feature of the trilobite was used to decide its name?

a)

Three lobes

b)

Three eyes

c)

Three cheek

15.

The oldest multi-celled fossils were found on which continent?

a)

Europe

b)

South America

c)

Africa

d)

Australia