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mammal/birds - Answers the name Theropoda is misleading. In latin, the name means "______ foot",
but the feet of dinosaurs in this group are actually more similar to ______.
bird/ mammals - Answers The name Ornithopoda is confusing. In latin, the name means "_____ foot",
but the feet of dinosaurs in this group are actually more similar to _____.
True - Answers All theropods were bi-peds (meaning they walk on two feet)
4 - Answers One of the traits of Theropods is that they have _____ or fewer fingers on each hand
3 - Answers If you were looking at a dinosaur trackway for T-Rex footprints ( or any theropod), you
would look at a print with ____ toes.
had feet and body plans that allowed for quick movement - Answers all theropods had
true - Answers True or False: the only known speciemen of aucasaurus died from head wounds inflicted
by another dinosaur
nested in colonies - Answers Coelophysis was a primitve bird-like theropod that likely:
false - Answers Troodontid dinosaurs had the smallest brain relative to body size of any dinosaur
a variety of things including clams, lizards, and possibly plants - Answers Oviraptors likely ate:
the very large flat spines that come off of its backbone - Answers Spinosaurus got its name from:
maniraptorans - Answers the ancestry of modern birds is found within which clade of theropoda?
mid-jurassic --Late Cretaceous - Answers members of the Tyrannosaurid clade are all of ____age.
the oviraptor itself - Answers the Oviraptor was given its name because the first fossil to be examined
showed it was buried as it hovered over a nest of dinosaur eggs. More detailed study revealed the eggs
most likely belonged to:
the fossilized bones show water damage - Answers Spinosaurus looks like a dinosaur mixed with a
crocodile. Which of the following is NOT used as evidence they spent most of their time in or near
rivers?
cone-shaped and didnt have serrated edges - Answers the teeth of Spinosaurus were
evidence of internal fish-like swim bladder - Answers there are several anatomy clues that tell us
spinosaurus spent a lot of time in the water, based on the characteristics of modern water-dwelling
animals. Which of the following is NOT one of those clues?
, their tails - Answers Humans stablize ourselves running by swinging our arms. Tyrannosaurs stabilize
themselves with:
tucked against their sides - Answers when tyrannosaurs ran, they kept their arms:
baby/juvenile raptors had a very different diet from adults - Answers new evidence from a isotopic study
of preserved teeth from Deinoychud ( aka the velociraptor) indicated that:
true - Answers Prosauropods existed earlier in geologic time than sauropods
false - Answers the latest views on prosauropods is that they were the ancestors of sauropods
very long necks - Answers one of the classic features of all members of the prosauropodomorph clade is
true - Answers True of false: all members of the prosauropodomorph clade were plant eaters.
herds- large numbers of individuals living together - Answers based on what we see in the fossil record,
the social structure of plateosaurus was likely:
small smooth stones assumed to be gastric stones - Answers the presence of ______ in prosauropod
fossils is used to support the idea that they were plant eaters
they crawled before they could walk - Answers the prosauropod mussaurus helped paleontologists
discover what interesting fact about baby prosauropods?
the teeth are serrated and set very similar to modern plant eating reptiles - Answers what characteristics
of prosauropod teeth leads us to believe they were plant eaters?
true - Answers true or false: some sauropod dinosaurs had baby teeth that were replaced by adult teeth
as they grew up
much shorter in the snout - Answers compared to diplodocus, camarasaurs skulls were:
spoon-shaped teeth - Answers Camarasaurus skulls had which of the following features:
the nasal passage sat on top of the skull, above their eyes - Answers Sauropods had an unusual
arrangement of its nasal passages compared to other clades in that:
short, column like - Answers members of the sauropod clade were very large animals with _____ feet
less heavy and smaller in size - Answers compared to other sauropods, diplodocus was:
was very long and flexible like a whip - Answers Diplodocus had a tail that was unique compared to
other sauropods in that it:
having especially long front legs compared to their hind legs - Answers Brachiosaurs can be distinguished
from other sauropods by:
mammal/birds - Answers the name Theropoda is misleading. In latin, the name means "______ foot",
but the feet of dinosaurs in this group are actually more similar to ______.
bird/ mammals - Answers The name Ornithopoda is confusing. In latin, the name means "_____ foot",
but the feet of dinosaurs in this group are actually more similar to _____.
True - Answers All theropods were bi-peds (meaning they walk on two feet)
4 - Answers One of the traits of Theropods is that they have _____ or fewer fingers on each hand
3 - Answers If you were looking at a dinosaur trackway for T-Rex footprints ( or any theropod), you
would look at a print with ____ toes.
had feet and body plans that allowed for quick movement - Answers all theropods had
true - Answers True or False: the only known speciemen of aucasaurus died from head wounds inflicted
by another dinosaur
nested in colonies - Answers Coelophysis was a primitve bird-like theropod that likely:
false - Answers Troodontid dinosaurs had the smallest brain relative to body size of any dinosaur
a variety of things including clams, lizards, and possibly plants - Answers Oviraptors likely ate:
the very large flat spines that come off of its backbone - Answers Spinosaurus got its name from:
maniraptorans - Answers the ancestry of modern birds is found within which clade of theropoda?
mid-jurassic --Late Cretaceous - Answers members of the Tyrannosaurid clade are all of ____age.
the oviraptor itself - Answers the Oviraptor was given its name because the first fossil to be examined
showed it was buried as it hovered over a nest of dinosaur eggs. More detailed study revealed the eggs
most likely belonged to:
the fossilized bones show water damage - Answers Spinosaurus looks like a dinosaur mixed with a
crocodile. Which of the following is NOT used as evidence they spent most of their time in or near
rivers?
cone-shaped and didnt have serrated edges - Answers the teeth of Spinosaurus were
evidence of internal fish-like swim bladder - Answers there are several anatomy clues that tell us
spinosaurus spent a lot of time in the water, based on the characteristics of modern water-dwelling
animals. Which of the following is NOT one of those clues?
, their tails - Answers Humans stablize ourselves running by swinging our arms. Tyrannosaurs stabilize
themselves with:
tucked against their sides - Answers when tyrannosaurs ran, they kept their arms:
baby/juvenile raptors had a very different diet from adults - Answers new evidence from a isotopic study
of preserved teeth from Deinoychud ( aka the velociraptor) indicated that:
true - Answers Prosauropods existed earlier in geologic time than sauropods
false - Answers the latest views on prosauropods is that they were the ancestors of sauropods
very long necks - Answers one of the classic features of all members of the prosauropodomorph clade is
true - Answers True of false: all members of the prosauropodomorph clade were plant eaters.
herds- large numbers of individuals living together - Answers based on what we see in the fossil record,
the social structure of plateosaurus was likely:
small smooth stones assumed to be gastric stones - Answers the presence of ______ in prosauropod
fossils is used to support the idea that they were plant eaters
they crawled before they could walk - Answers the prosauropod mussaurus helped paleontologists
discover what interesting fact about baby prosauropods?
the teeth are serrated and set very similar to modern plant eating reptiles - Answers what characteristics
of prosauropod teeth leads us to believe they were plant eaters?
true - Answers true or false: some sauropod dinosaurs had baby teeth that were replaced by adult teeth
as they grew up
much shorter in the snout - Answers compared to diplodocus, camarasaurs skulls were:
spoon-shaped teeth - Answers Camarasaurus skulls had which of the following features:
the nasal passage sat on top of the skull, above their eyes - Answers Sauropods had an unusual
arrangement of its nasal passages compared to other clades in that:
short, column like - Answers members of the sauropod clade were very large animals with _____ feet
less heavy and smaller in size - Answers compared to other sauropods, diplodocus was:
was very long and flexible like a whip - Answers Diplodocus had a tail that was unique compared to
other sauropods in that it:
having especially long front legs compared to their hind legs - Answers Brachiosaurs can be distinguished
from other sauropods by:
