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CORRECT ANSWERS
What is the difference between R-strategists and K-strategists as reproductive
strategies? - Answer- R-strategists laid many eggs and didn't care for their young and
K-Strategists cared for their young laying fewer eggs.
What was the reproductive strategy of the sauropods? - Answer- They were R-
strategists that laid as many eggs as possible, but did not care for their young.
Evidence for the strategies that sauropods used in reproduction were...
a. Fossil footprints of young dinosaurs next to adult dinosaurs.
b. Eggs laid in massive nesting grounds.
c. Fossil remains of parents protecting their young.
d. All of these. - Answer- Eggs laid in massive nesting grounds
What might the plates of Stegosaurus have been used for?
a. a body morphology that allows the animal to look larger for defense purposes
b. a sexual display
c. a radiator to increase heat or cool the animal
d. all of these - Answer- all of these
Ceratopsian means...
a. "horned face"
b. "frill"
c. "beak lips"
,d. "boney plates" - Answer- "horned face"
Pterosaurs were...
a. covered in fur or scales and likely warm blooded
b. were flying dinosaurs
c. out lasted the dinosaurs and finally died off in the last ice age
d. all of these - Answer- covered in fur or scales and likely warm blooded
The extinction of the dinosaurs...
a. is still debated in science as one of the great mysteries of the dinosaurs
b. made an ecologically opening for other animals to become dominant
c. ended the Cretaceous time period
d. all of these - Answer- all of these
What is a Sauropodomorpha? - Answer- It is the group that includes prosauropods and
sauropods
How are Sauropods and Theropods related?
a. their pelvises reminded the scientists that named them after lizards.
b. their Ischium and Pubis attach to the Ilium and extend away from each other.
c. they are both Saurischian dinosaurs.
d. all of these - Answer- all of these
What are the diagnostic characteristics of Sauropodmopha? - Answer- Small heads and
long necks
Describe the stance of the Sauropods - Answer- They were quadrupeds with the front
legs position up on the toes in a digitigrade position and the hind feet in the plantigrade.
What is the evidence that sauropods didn't really chew their food?
a. Sauropods had no inset tooth rows for cheeks
, b. No blocks of grinding teeth or dental batteries.
c. They did not have the ability manipulate the food with their tongues.
d. All of these - Answer- all of these
How did Sauropods eat plants without much ability with chew?
a. Gastroliths.
b. A large stomach with sufficient space for stomach bacteria to help break down food.
c. A muscular gizzard.
d. all of these - Answer- all of these
What is a design of constraint of having a long neck?
a. Dense heavy bones that could support strong neck muscles
b. None of these
c. Strong hollow neck bones
d. Low blood pressure - Answer- Strong hollow neck bones
The teeth of the Pachycephalosaurs indicate they likely ate...
a. soft vegetation
b. twigs, bark, and branches
c. meat of other dinosaurs
d. insects - Answer- soft vegetation
A sudden extinction event...
a. would explain why there are no dinosaur fossils found above the KT boundary
b. could have been caused by a large meteor impact
c. can be caused by one large volcano eruption that blocks out the sun through a
growing season or releasing gases that could change the average global temperatures
abruptly
CORRECT ANSWERS
What is the difference between R-strategists and K-strategists as reproductive
strategies? - Answer- R-strategists laid many eggs and didn't care for their young and
K-Strategists cared for their young laying fewer eggs.
What was the reproductive strategy of the sauropods? - Answer- They were R-
strategists that laid as many eggs as possible, but did not care for their young.
Evidence for the strategies that sauropods used in reproduction were...
a. Fossil footprints of young dinosaurs next to adult dinosaurs.
b. Eggs laid in massive nesting grounds.
c. Fossil remains of parents protecting their young.
d. All of these. - Answer- Eggs laid in massive nesting grounds
What might the plates of Stegosaurus have been used for?
a. a body morphology that allows the animal to look larger for defense purposes
b. a sexual display
c. a radiator to increase heat or cool the animal
d. all of these - Answer- all of these
Ceratopsian means...
a. "horned face"
b. "frill"
c. "beak lips"
,d. "boney plates" - Answer- "horned face"
Pterosaurs were...
a. covered in fur or scales and likely warm blooded
b. were flying dinosaurs
c. out lasted the dinosaurs and finally died off in the last ice age
d. all of these - Answer- covered in fur or scales and likely warm blooded
The extinction of the dinosaurs...
a. is still debated in science as one of the great mysteries of the dinosaurs
b. made an ecologically opening for other animals to become dominant
c. ended the Cretaceous time period
d. all of these - Answer- all of these
What is a Sauropodomorpha? - Answer- It is the group that includes prosauropods and
sauropods
How are Sauropods and Theropods related?
a. their pelvises reminded the scientists that named them after lizards.
b. their Ischium and Pubis attach to the Ilium and extend away from each other.
c. they are both Saurischian dinosaurs.
d. all of these - Answer- all of these
What are the diagnostic characteristics of Sauropodmopha? - Answer- Small heads and
long necks
Describe the stance of the Sauropods - Answer- They were quadrupeds with the front
legs position up on the toes in a digitigrade position and the hind feet in the plantigrade.
What is the evidence that sauropods didn't really chew their food?
a. Sauropods had no inset tooth rows for cheeks
, b. No blocks of grinding teeth or dental batteries.
c. They did not have the ability manipulate the food with their tongues.
d. All of these - Answer- all of these
How did Sauropods eat plants without much ability with chew?
a. Gastroliths.
b. A large stomach with sufficient space for stomach bacteria to help break down food.
c. A muscular gizzard.
d. all of these - Answer- all of these
What is a design of constraint of having a long neck?
a. Dense heavy bones that could support strong neck muscles
b. None of these
c. Strong hollow neck bones
d. Low blood pressure - Answer- Strong hollow neck bones
The teeth of the Pachycephalosaurs indicate they likely ate...
a. soft vegetation
b. twigs, bark, and branches
c. meat of other dinosaurs
d. insects - Answer- soft vegetation
A sudden extinction event...
a. would explain why there are no dinosaur fossils found above the KT boundary
b. could have been caused by a large meteor impact
c. can be caused by one large volcano eruption that blocks out the sun through a
growing season or releasing gases that could change the average global temperatures
abruptly
