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This quiz is Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best answers the question!
1. What are the three time periods that dinosaurs lived?
The Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria
Prehistoric, Historic, and Future
Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous
Eastern, Central, and Mountain time
2. What name does the Brontosaurus go by these days?
Apatosaurus
Brachiosaurus
Tyrannosaurus
Diplodocus
3. What does the name Deinoychus mean?
Helpful lizard
Terrible lizard
Helpful claw
Terrible claw
4. Which plant-eating dinosaur had a huge claw on its thumb?
Velociraptor
Megalosaurus
Iguanodon
Coelophysis
5. Why did some dinosaurs eat rocks?
They needed them to break up food in their gizzard.
They were too dumb to realize that rocks weren’t food.
They liked the taste of them.
Dinosaurs didn’t eat rocks.
6. Which of the following is not a dinosaur?
Plesiosaurus
Dimetrodon
Pteradactyl
None of these are dinosaurs
7. When scientists study dinosaur teeth, they can learn
whether dinosaurs brushed and flossed regularly.
whether dinosaurs ate plants or meat.
whether dinosaurs lived in herds.
whether or not dinosaurs took care of their babies.
8. Which of these is not a dinosaur fossil scientists have found?
Dinosaur footprints
Dinosaur skin
Dinosaur eggs
Dinosaur brains
9. Which of these is the “good mother lizard”?
Maiasaura
Velociraptor
Oviraptor
Protoceratops
10. Scientists are 99% certain that which of the following caused the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs?
An earthquake
A flood
An asteroid hitting the earth
Scientists have no real idea why the dinosaurs became extinct.
How did you do?
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