Dinosaur quiz cards usborne quiz cards eng 2012

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ä Usborne ® Dinosaur Quiz Cards _-

How much do you know about the incredible inhabitants of the prehistoric world?

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_, What are dinosaurs?

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ø) repiiles b) amphibians c) mammals

{2 Did dinosours live only during the Jurassic period? (33 All animals with a name ending

in ‘saurus’ are dinosaurs an True or false?

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‘5 } Did all dinosaurs live on land?

6} For roughly how many million years did dinosaurs exist? a) 16 b) 65 c) 165

(7) When did the first dinosaur appear on the planet? a) around 2 million years ago

b) around 25 million years ago

c) around 250 million years ago (8) The word ‘dinosaur’ means:

a) loud lizard b) terrible lizard c) giant lizard

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(2) Tyrannosaurus

A Tyrannosaurus was a fierce predator that lived around 85 to 65 million years ago It was one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs that ever lived {1} Tyrannosaurus fossils have only ever been found in:

a) Asia b) Europe c) North America

{2 Some scientists think Tyrannosauruses left rotting meat

stuck between their teeth, that might have infected their prey with dangerous bacteria when they bit them _ True or false? N \ \ 1 1 1 Ỷ £3) Was a Tyrannosaurus tall enough to peer

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(53 A Tyrannosaurus’ powerful mouth could bite off

and hold a chunk of meat the weight of a rhino True or false? £6: Roughly how many teeth did a Tyrannosaurus have? a) 16 b) 60 c) 160 ‘7 Tyrannosauruses may have hunted in packs True or false?

(8) The name Tyrannosaurus rex means: a) giant royal lizard

b) prince of the meat-eaters

c) tyrant lizard king

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|} The heaviest sauropod

2 A Europasaurus was

: Did scientists once

? Standing on the ground,

Sauropods

Sauropods were a group of large plant-eaters

with bulky bodies, small heads and long necks

and tails The biggest and the least intelligent

dinosaurs belonged to the

sauropod family

brain weighed around the same as:

a) an apple ⁄ : | : b) a grapefruit : c) a melon

a sauropod that was

only the size of a bull

True or false?

think that sauropods lived under water? this Sauroposeidon could

have peered intothe `-_y

top window of a: a) three-floor building b) six-floor building

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c8) Squropods may hove wolked

(6) This is a Mamenchisaurus It was so huge

‘7: For around how many

“8 Which of these is the on four legs but run on two legs True or false?

that it had to eat at least 100,000 Lệ

calories a day to survive Ỳ

True or false? ( “e - ` Cy

million years were 38 ~

sauropods on the Earth? “OL

a) 70 b) 140 c) 210

name of a real sauropod whose fossils were found near a famous river?

a) Gangesaurus

b) Nilesaurus

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CL} A Diplodocus’ brain was

2° A Diplodocus’ neck was

33 A Diplodocus’ tail was

@ Diplodocus

A Diplodocus was a huge, plant-eating sauropod that lived between 155 and

145 million years ago It had a small head, and a long neck and tail

the size of a person’s:

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‘5: A Diplodocus ate by: li ` ` Sư ` ~~-Z~~~~

a) raking its teeth along branches b) sucking leaves from branches

c) pulling leaves from branches with its tongue W

£6} The amount of dung that y

£7) Diplodocus fossils

£8» Is it more likely that

a Diplodocus produced in one day could probably fill a car True or false?

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Ceratopsia ns ©

Ceratopsians were a group of plant-eating dinosaurs that walked on four legs They all had big heads “13 This dinosaur is an _ Einiosaurus l† used its downward-curving horn to: ` a) pick up food Ss b) scratch itself c) defend itself

£2} Were ceratopsians’ neck

frills made of bone or muscle?

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{8 These little dinosaurs are Archaeoceratopses, one of the smallest types

of ceratopsians They were Š only twice the size of a: a) hamster b)cdt c) pony i 1 1 1 1 \

‘63 Were male ceratopsians’ frills and horns | usually larger or smaller than females’?

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(7) All ceratopsians were born with similar-shaped Ñ

heads, and they only developed their distinctive _* horns and frills as they grew older

True or false?

{8 One type of ceratopsian had '

bony, snake-like growths around đa its neck frill Was this dinosaur

called Medusaceratops or Sirenceratops?

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Tricerato ps

A Triceratops was a plant-eating, rhinoceros-like ceratopsian with three horns on its face and a bony frill around its neck It lived between 72 and 65 million years ago

3 In which kind of environment did Triceratops live?

a) wetlands b) rainforests c) deserts v2

like rhinos do?

to how many teeth in its mouth at any one time? a) 400

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‘5: A Triceratops is most likely to have used its neck

frill for which two of these purposes? a) to reflect sunlight into predators’ eyes

b) to control its body temperature

c) to attract mates

“6} The horns above a Triceratops’ eyes were as long as:

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ΠStegosaurs

Stegosaurs were a group of plant-eating dinosaurs

that were closely related to ceratopsians They had double rows of plates and spikes along their backs and sharp spikes on the ends of their tails

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(8) Were a stegosaur’s plates Like GA attached to its bones or Z7 stuck in its skin?

wa Stegosaurs used their tough beaks to break open

C8) In which period did stegosaurs

_) What is a thagomizer? -

a) a stegosaur’s back plate

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A Stegosaurus ‘was a small-

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đội miện khi as its ont legs?

(4) Stegosaurus is most likely to

have used the plates on its back

for which two of these purposes?

a) to control its body temperature

b) to attack other dinosaurs

c) to tell its own kind from

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(8) The older a Stegosaurus became,

the more tail spikes it grew

True or false? ` ad

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(63 In which two of

these continents have

Stegosaurus fossils been found?

a) Europe b) Asia c) North America

‘ 7} Running at top speed, a Stegosaurus could move as quickly as the world’s fastest:

a) lawnmower b) sprinter c) bicycle (83 Although a Stegosaurus was bigger than an elephant,

its brain was only the size of a:

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3} Might some types of

¿ The most intelligent

DromaeoSaurs

Dromaeosaurs were a fierce, meat-eating group of dinosaurs that walked on two legs and had long claws, which they used to kill their prey They were

closely related to birds, and some had feathers ? Dromaeosaurs are nicknamed:

a) raptors b) dinobirds c) slashers ? Did dromaeosautrs slash their victims

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‘5: A tooth belonging to this _ turkey-sized dromgeosqur a

Saurornitholestes was found -~ stuck in a fossilized wing

bone of giant flying reptile Quetzalcoatlus

True or false?

(ó) At least how many times heavier was the heaviest dromaeosaur,

Utahraptor, than the lightest dromaeosaur, Microraptor?

a) 5 b) 50 c) 500

! Have dromaeosaur fossils ever

been found in Antarctica?

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ee : Dromaeosaurs were so

intelligent, it would have

been possible to train them to sit, roll over and shake

hands, just like dogs

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° ; Velociraptor

Velociraptors were vicious, meat-eating

They had sharp claws and

ed in hot, dry environments dromaeosaur

_ teeth, and liv

around 85 to 80 million years ago

BI Could Velociraptors have jumped onto

the backs of bigger prey to attack them from behind? ) Were a Velociraptor’s

teeth smooth or serrated?

{3 Did Velociraptors have the shortest or

the longest skulls of all the dromaeosaurs?

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{8 Did Velociraptors use their feathers to help them fly? (6) The Velociraptors shown in the Hollywood movie

‘7: Velociraptors may have been cannibal

f8) Could Velociraptors have used their claws

‘Jurassic Park’ were actually based on Deinonychus,

another type of dromaeosaur

True or false?

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scavengers, eating rotting flesh from

the bodies of dead dinosaurs AES True or false? w

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ean @) Ankylosaurs

Ankylosaurs were a group of plant-eating dinosaurs that were covered in tough, protective scales, spikes and bony plates Some had clubs at the end of their tails, which they swung at approaching predators

C1) Did any kinds of ankylosaurs have more than one

club at the end of their tail?

(2° Crichtonsaurus was named after Michael Crichton, the

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C6 Ankylosaurs sometimes hit things

(6) Did Ankylosaurus break wind a lot?

so hard with their tails that

their tail clubs broke off

True or false?

{7 Euoplocepholus wos so well covered by plates

"and spikes, that the only way for a predator such

as Tyrannosaurus to injure it would be to:

a) slash at its one unprotected ankle |

b) flip it onto its back and dig into its soft belly }

c) pierce the patch of bare skin under its chin | ‘8% The first dinosaur fossil ever discovered

in Antarctica was of an ankylosaur True or false?

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2) | Hadrosaurs

Hadrosaurs were a group of gentle, plant-eating dinosaurs that had thick, short bodies and tough beaks Many types of hadrosaurs lived together in large herds

“13 What does the name ‘hadrosaur’ mean?

a) bulky lizard bb) talllizard c) gentle lizard

12) Did Tyrannosaurus hunt hadrosaurs?

3} Could hadrosaurs bend their tails?

ce This is an Anatotitan How was it most likely to have used its beak?

a) for digging up plants b) for hitting predators

c) for making sounds >

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‘5 } Scientists think that some hadrosaurs poe, dee » ) ry

used the crests on their heads to: ` at a) make sounds to communicate Ấ qf

b) blow out gas from their bodies Mì ` P

c) sneeze through oy

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Có ) Giant hadrosqaur Shantungosqurus was as heavy as:

a) 10 lions b) I0 elephanis c) 10 blue whales

‘73 Hadrosaurs grazed on four feet AS but may have run away from

predators on two feet True or false? CN long did it take a baby hadrosaur to grow into an adult?

a) less than 6 years b) 8-12 years c) over 16 years

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Pachycephalosaurs

Pachycephalosaurs were a group of plant-eating dinosaurs that walked on two legs They had thick

skulls and may have roamed in herds

1} What does the name ‘pachycephalosaur’ mean? a) dome-headed lizard & b) bone-headed lizard ¬< c) thick-headed lizard yack oP Why might pachycephalosaurs have head butted each other? a) as a form of greeting

b) to fight for dominance in their herd

c) to warn others of danger

c3) Were pachycephalosaurs’ skulls so big because they housed huge brains?

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(8) The most commonly found pachycephalosaur ye

fossil is of which part of its body? ; a) its leg b) its skull xˆ c) its neck oN : ee 7

(6) Stygimoloch is a pachycephalosaur with a name that means ‘horned demon from the river of death’

True or false?

7 The thickest part of Pachycephalosaurus’ :

=~ skull was as thick as how \ many bricks? “8: Which of these, inspired by J.K Rowling’s

tales of Harry Potter, is the

name of a real pachycephalosaur? a) Norbertodon hagridia

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@ Early birds

Most dinosaur scientists believe that birds

are a type of dinosaur, and that they evolved

from small meat-eaters The first birds lived alongside dinosaurs

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‘63 Did all prehistoric (7) Which dinosaur “8: Which of these is the name (8) This penguin-like early bird \

is called Hesperornis Did it use its feet more for diving or for walking? _ 7

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© DinoSaur names

? Is the dinosaur Camelotia named after a camel or after King Arthur’s legendary court, Camelot?

JỆ ‘NM: ‘ } Which of these is the meaning

of the dinosaur name

Megapnosaurus?

a) good happy lizard b) small hungry lizard c) big dead lizard

{3 One dinosaur was named

Eiffelosaurus, after the Eiffel Tower in France

True or false?

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(8) This is a Zupaysaurus, an early meat-eating dinosaur

with a name that means ‘devil lizard’? Was it so named because it looked like a devil or because the x

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area where its first fossil —— a i

was found is called by nee Beats = csi = ` x Devil’s Creek? 2 TP > (6) Is there a dinosaur named Irritator? Fi ` C7 The name of ` ` mi là small, feathered š Bi

dinosaur Rahonavis means:

a) fear from the rivers fish =a ``

b) danger from the trees lizard = (

c) menace from the clouds bird

{8 Eoraptor lunensis is one of the

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Dinosaur giants

1} Which was probably

the largest dinosaur? - a) Amphicoelias b) Supersaurus c) Diplodocus 23 One of the biggest dinosaurs is known as ‘The King of the Jurassic’ Is it Allosaurus or Tyrannosaurus?

3} Which dinosaur was the

biggest of the meat-eaters:

Spinosaurus or Velociraptor? ¥

{4 Argentinosaurus was

a giant plant-eating

dinosaur Where were

its fossils first discovered?

a) Europe b) South America

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€8) Which of these is the name of a real dinosaur giant? a) Giraffatitan ) Rhinocatitan c) Elephantitan >} Mamenchisaurus was a long-necked plant-eating dinosaur It could grow to be as heavy as how many rhinos? a) 3 b) 10 c) 20

c7) Shantungosaurus was a giant

duck-billed dinosaur It was the biggest animal ever known to:

a) walk on two feet b) climb trees c) fly

8} The sea creature on

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s a small din {23 Some dinosaurs were only _ as long as matchsticks True or false ?

These little lizard-eating -

dinosaurs are Compsognathus

They were around the size of}

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} How much heavier was

dinosaur giant Brachiosaurus than tiny Fruitadens, which lived alongside it?

a) 400 times b) 4,000 times c) 40,000 times

} Tiny dinosaur Mei holds the record

3 A fossil of feathered dinosaur Anchiornis is This prehistoric bird is an

Iberomesornis |t was around

the size of a sparrow -

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True or false? Ỳ

for having the shortest dinosaur: a) legs b) tail c) name

the smallest complete skeleton ever discovered

Where was it found? s

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í (8) ‘Have more fossils been found of injured meat-eaters or injured plant-eaters? |

Có ) Did any meat-eating dinosaurs

have straight claws?

(7) This giant dinosaur is a Saurophaganax It was

one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs in North America The name Saurophaganax means: ~._

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Plant-eaters LE

“13 How many fingers did most

plant-eaters have on each hand? a) three b) four c) five 2 SỔ => i (2) This is a long-necked plant-eater called Brachiosaurus What \ does its name mean? a) neck lizard Ề b) arm lizard c) branch-chewing lizard

(3) What did some plant-eaters swallow to help them grind up the food in their stomachs?

a) tree bark b) stones c)