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BSC1005 Exam 4 with verified detailed answers || || || || || ||
The first written accounts of what turned out to be dinosaur bones came from
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where? - ✔✔China || ||
What President is often referred to as the "Founding Father of Paleontology" ? -
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✔✔Thomas Jefferson ||
What is does the term perforate acetabulae mean? - ✔✔A hole in the hips
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where the thighbone (i.e. femur attaches)
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What was the "Dinosaur renaissance"? - ✔✔An event in the 1960s that led to
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renewed interest in dinosaurs || || ||
When was the reign of the "dinosaurs"? - ✔✔238 to 65.5 million years ago
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FSU researchers determined the bite force of the American alligator. Those data
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were used to model bite forces in giant fossil crocs and ultimately dinosaurs.
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What was the value for the alligator? - ✔✔3,000 lbs
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The "Loch Ness Monster" is supposed to be a living - ✔✔Plesiosaur
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Most dinosaur fossils are found in what kind of rocks? - ✔✔Sedimentary
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What is a characteristic that defines Ornithichia? - ✔✔Bird-shaped hip bones
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What characterizes a member of the Thyreophora? - ✔✔Osteoderms (= skin
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armor)
What is an endocast? - ✔✔A rock, latex or CT scan copy of the brain
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Why are there so many crazy interpretations of what dinosaurs were doing with
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their anatomy, especially for those found long ago? - ✔✔Paleontology is a field
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founded in Geology || ||
What is sexual dimorphism? - ✔✔When the sexes of animals look different
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One of the biggest mysteries with regard to dinosaur biology that Dr. Erickson
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talked about is? - ✔✔What is the sex of the individual
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What is a dental battery? - ✔✔Stacks of interlocked teeth that were regularly
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replaced
Why do we know so much about hadrosaurid dinosaurs? - ✔✔***All answer
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choices are correct || ||
We have found lots of their trackways
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We have found lots of their skeletons
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We have found mummified remains
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BSC1005 Exam 4 with verified detailed answers || || || || || ||
The first written accounts of what turned out to be dinosaur bones came from
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where? - ✔✔China || ||
What President is often referred to as the "Founding Father of Paleontology" ? -
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✔✔Thomas Jefferson ||
What is does the term perforate acetabulae mean? - ✔✔A hole in the hips
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where the thighbone (i.e. femur attaches)
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What was the "Dinosaur renaissance"? - ✔✔An event in the 1960s that led to
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
renewed interest in dinosaurs || || ||
When was the reign of the "dinosaurs"? - ✔✔238 to 65.5 million years ago
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FSU researchers determined the bite force of the American alligator. Those data
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were used to model bite forces in giant fossil crocs and ultimately dinosaurs.
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
What was the value for the alligator? - ✔✔3,000 lbs
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The "Loch Ness Monster" is supposed to be a living - ✔✔Plesiosaur
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Most dinosaur fossils are found in what kind of rocks? - ✔✔Sedimentary
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What is a characteristic that defines Ornithichia? - ✔✔Bird-shaped hip bones
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What characterizes a member of the Thyreophora? - ✔✔Osteoderms (= skin
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armor)
What is an endocast? - ✔✔A rock, latex or CT scan copy of the brain
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Why are there so many crazy interpretations of what dinosaurs were doing with
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their anatomy, especially for those found long ago? - ✔✔Paleontology is a field
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
founded in Geology || ||
What is sexual dimorphism? - ✔✔When the sexes of animals look different
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One of the biggest mysteries with regard to dinosaur biology that Dr. Erickson
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
talked about is? - ✔✔What is the sex of the individual
|| || || || || || || || || ||
What is a dental battery? - ✔✔Stacks of interlocked teeth that were regularly
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
replaced
Why do we know so much about hadrosaurid dinosaurs? - ✔✔***All answer
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choices are correct || ||
We have found lots of their trackways
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We have found lots of their skeletons
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We have found mummified remains
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