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Dinosaurs The Quiz

This quiz book is designed to accompany:

Dinosaurs: Amazing Pictures and Animal Facts

Everyone Should Know

from The Animal Kids Books Series by

Ann Lawrence

Copyright © 2015 Ann Lawrence

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Table of Contents

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Dinosaurs - The Quiz

Question 1What does the word dinosaur mean?

A. Great reptile

B. Scaly beast

C. Terrible lizard

D. King iguana

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Answer 1

The correct answer is ‘C’.

Dinosaur comes from the Greek words deinos meaning ‘terrible’ and sauros meaning ‘lizard’ or ‘reptile’.

The term dinosaur was first used by Sir Richard Owen in 1842.

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Question 2When did the dinosaurs live?

A. Mesozoic era

B. Paleozoic era

C. Cenozoic era

D. Neoproterozoic era

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Answer 2

The correct answer is ‘A’.

The Mesozoic era lasted for some 185 million years and was divided into 3 periods - the Triassic, the Jurassic and the Cretaceous. Dinosaurs first appeared on earth about 215 million years ago towards the end of the Triassic period and died out suddenly 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period.

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Question 3During the Triassic period the continents we know today were all part of a single land mass. What was the name given to this giant land mass?

A. Gondwana

B. Pangaea

C. Laurentia

D. Columbia

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Answer 3

The correct answer is ‘B’.

This super-continent was called Pangaea, named after the Ancient Greek words pan, meaning ‘entire’, and Gaia, meaning ‘mother earth’. The land mass began to break up at the start of the Jurassic period.

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Question 4Where have dinosaur remains NOT been found?

A. Kansas, US

B. China

C. Argentina

D. None of the above

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Answer 4

The correct answer is ‘D’.

Dinosaur remains have been found all over the world including Kansas, China and Argentina.

Microraptor gui (a winged theropod) / Apatosaurus louisae (a giant sauropod)

Edmontosaurus regalis (a duck-billed ornithopod) / Triceratops horridus (a horned ceratopsian)

Stegosaurus stenops (a plated stegosaur) / Pinacosaurus grangeri (an armored ankylosaur)

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Question 5Which of the following appeared first on earth?

A. Beetles

B. Dinosaurs

C. Frogs

D. Flowering plants

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Answer 5


Frogs and dinosaurs appeared during the Triassic period and flowering plants were first seen during the Cretaceous period. Beetles however appeared before the dinosaurs. Although it is difficult to be certain about these things, it is believed that the first beetles appeared about 300 million years ago, at the start of the Permian period.

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Question 6Which of the following is not a dinosaur?

A. Allosaurus

B. Carcharodontosaurus

C. Quetzalcoatlus

D. Diploducus

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Answer 6


Quetzalcoatlus was a Pterosaur and first appeared during the Triassic period. Pterosaurs are sometimes referred to as ‘flying dinosaurs’, but they do not in fact belong to the dinosaur family. Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight.

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Question 7Which dinosaur is sometimes referred to as the ‘roofed lizard’ or ‘roofed reptile’?

A. Camptosaurus

B. Torosaurus

C. Kentrosaurus

D. Stegosaurus

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Answer 7


Othniel Charles Marsh first described the Stegosaurus in 1877, when he named it after the Greek words stegos, meaning ‘covered’ or ‘plated’, and sauros, meaning lizard. When he described it Marsh likened the plates on its back to the shingles on the roof of a house, thus giving rise to the terms ‘roofed lizard’ and ‘roofed reptile’.

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Question 8What caused the extinction of the dinosaurs?

A. Man

B. An asteroid hitting the earth

C. A virus

D. The ice age

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Answer 8


Although we cannot be certain, there was clearly some sort of catastrophic event that wiped the dinosaurs out some 65 million years ago. It is believed that the most likely explanation is that this event was a large asteroid hitting the planet.

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Question 9During what period did Tyrannosaurus Rex live?

A. Cretaceous

B. Triassic

C. Jurassic

D. Carboniferous

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Answer 9


Tyrannosaurus Rex was one of the very last of the dinosaurs, and first appeared at the end of the Cretaceous period some 66 million years ago.

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Question 10Which one of these dinosaurs was most like a rhinoceros?

A. Saltopus

B. Stegosaurus

C. Triceratops

D. Gallimimus

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Answer 10


While Triceratops was about four times larger than the modern Rhinoceros, when you put the two side-by-side you can see why the Triceratops is said to look like the Rhinoceros.

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Question 11Which of the following dinosaurs never existed?

A. Brachiosaurus

B. Ankylosaurus

C. Argentinosaurus

D. Brontosaurus

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Answer 11


Brontosaurus is probably one of the most recognized dinosaur names but, in fact, it never existed and was nothing more than a hoax. In the 19th century the American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh created the fictional Brontosaurus from the bones of an Apatosaurus and said that he had discovered a new dinosaur species.

Apatosaurus

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Question 12Which animal’s ancestors did NOT live during the time of dinosaurs?

A. Bear

B. Crocodile

C. Shark

D. Jellyfish

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Answer 12


The early ancestors of today’s bears appeared about 25 million years ago, about 40 million years after the dinosaurs became extinct.

Illustration of the now extinct cave bear

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Question 13Which of these dinosaurs was a meat eater?

A. Spinosaurus

B. Triceratops

C. Stegosaurus

D. Apatosaurus

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Answer 13


The Spinosaurus is believed to have hunted alone for its main prey, which was fish. It hunted by using its enormous sail to shade the water so that it could see its prey, before impaling it with its crocodile-like teeth.

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Question 14The most intact Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, ‘Sue,’ can be seen on display today in which US state?

A. South Dakota

B. Montana

C. Illinois

D. Arizona

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Answer 14


‘Sue’ is named after Sue Hendrickson, a paleontologist, who first discovered the skeleton in South Dakota. ‘Sue’ is the largest and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found and can be seen today in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

(Photo courtesy of Michael Gray, Wikimedia)

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Question 15Which of these present-day animals is descended from the dinosaurs?

A. Frog

B. Alligator

C. Hummingbird

D. Chimpanzee

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Answer 15


Scientific theory holds that modern-day birds are descended directly from the dinosaurs.

Male and female ruby-necked hummingbirds

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Question 16Which scaly star of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park was portrayed as a fearsome predator, but was later revealed to have been the size of a chicken and covered in feathers?

A. Tyrannosaurus Rex

B. Velociraptor

C. Dilophosaurus

D. Ornitholestes

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Answer 16


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Question 17Which dinosaur is the official state fossil of Utah?

A. Plateosaurus

B. Camptosaurus

C. Allosaurus

D. Compsognathus

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Answer 17


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Question 18What was the first carnivorous dinosaur to be discovered in Antarctica?

A. Pachyrhinosaurus

B. Styracosaurus

C. Torosaurus

D. Cryolophosaurus

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Answer 18


The best known example of the Cryolophosaurus was found in the Central Antarctic Mountains (Mt. Kirkpatrick) just 400 miles from the South Pole. Today it is on display in the Auckland War Memorial Museum in New Zealand.

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Question 19The South American Argentinosaurus is said to be the biggest dinosaur ever to have walked the earth. How much did it weigh?

A. 220 pounds

B. 2,200 pounds

C. 22,000 pounds

D. 220,000 pounds

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Answer 19


Argentinosaurus stood over 70 feet tall, was more than 110 feet in length and could weigh up to 220,000 pounds (100,000 kilograms).

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Question 20What was the name given to the first dinosaur ever unearthed?

A. Coelophysis

B. Ornitholestes

C. Megalosaurus

D. Edmontonia

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Answer 20


The first dinosaur bone was found in England in 1676 and was believed to have been either a giant human bone, or the bone from a giant elephant brought to England by the Romans.

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You have completed the quiz!

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