WorksheetsSearching for Spinosaurus (Part 1)
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 1hrs 25mins
The story Searching for Spinosaurus starts in Erfoud, Morocco where a young paleontologist named______ ____________ was looking for fossils in March, 2013.
Ernst Stromer
Nizir Ibrahim
Charles Darwin
Gregor Mendel
The specific location that Ibrahim was searching for dinosaurs was called the_________ _____ _____ and it dated back to the ___________ __________.
Morocco Salt Flats, Cretaceous Period
Spinosaurus River Bed, Jurassic Period
Kem Kem Beds, Cretaceous Period
Spinosaurus River Flats, Triassic Period
A Bavarian aristocrat by the name of Ernst Stromer in 1910 and 1914 found in the Kem Kem beds many types of (choose all that apply).
fish
turtles
birds with feathers
plants with leaves
crocodiles
One of Stromers disoveries were 2 complete skeletons of a gigantic predator.
True
False
What was unique and startling about the fossil Stromer discovered was that it had extraordinary features such as (choose all that apply).
six foot tall sails
spines
feathers
antennae
interlocking conical teeth
Stromer named this animal
Spinosaurus replicus
Spinosaurus antiquitus
Spinosaurus sailus
Spinosuarus aegyptiacus
This great fossil discovery was preserved in the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology in Munich, Germany where you can actually go today and see Stromers Spinosaurus bones (choose the BEST answer).
True, the fossilized bones were stored in a bunker during the bombing in WWII
True, but you need special permission
False, they were destroyed during WWII
False, the bones were moved to England
Getting back to the young paleontologist Nizir Ibrahim, he first encountered Stromer's strange and gigantic Spinosaurus in__________
Scientific journals
Munich
Morocco
Children's books
Ibrahim was so fascinated by Stromers Spinosaurus that he immediately began
giving educational tours of the fossil discovery site in Morocco.
submitting Spinosaurus sketchings to the local university.
an 836 page dissertation of the entire fossil record.
creating a website show casing Spinosaurus
When Ibrahim was working on his PhD. in Morocco he came across a cardboard box containing purplish stones with something protruding from the rock. Ibrahim thought it looked like a _____ _____ ____
(3 words-lower case-spelling is important).
(a)
Shortly after examining the box with purple stones streaked with yellow sediment, Ibrahim was in Milan, Italy. Researchers showed him a partial skeleton of a large dinosaur ____________ that was still ________ ____ _______
Tyrannosaurus, encrusted in rock
Veolociraptor, encrusted in rock
Spinosaurus, encrusted in rock
Triceratops, clean of debris
Ibrahim examined the the bones and knew they were from Spinosaurus. The flat bone must have been
a piece of spine
a piece of skull
a piece of ankle
a piece of vertebra
Ibrahim hypothesized that the bones of Spinosaurus he examined in Milan and Erfoud probably came from the same individual animal.
True
False
The young paleontologist thought that if he could pinpoint the exact _________ where the fossils had been buried they could be the __________ __________ for understanding Spinosaurus (upper-lower case is important).
(a)
What was Ibrahim's strategy for finding the exact location where both sets of bones were buried in the desert?
Use a map from the local villagers
Use Google Maps
Activate GPS coordinates
Find the local nomad
Ibrahim and his partner Zouhri did find the local nomad after nearly giving up. Was this encounter worth the wait?
No, the local nomad did not want to tell them the location of where the bones were found.
Yes, the local nomad did agree to show them the exact location of where the Spinosaurus bones were found.
Yes, the local nomad initially sold the bones for $5,000.00 and was willing to show the the excavation site.
No, which made Ibrahim ultimately give up their search.
How old was the dry riverbed where the local nomad took Ibrahim and Zouhri?
1,000,000,000 years old
1,000 years old
100,000,000 years old
100,000 years old
