Old Earth Ministries Online Dinosaur Curriculum

Dinosaur Test 4


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1: This 30 foot long tyrannosaurid dinosaur lived from 77 to 74 Ma, and shows evidence of facial biting and living in social groups.
Struthiomimus
Albertosaurus
Daspletosaurus
Gorgosaurus
2: This dinosaur lived roughly at the same time as the dinosaur in Question 1. This dinosaur is the best represented tyrannosaurid in the fossil record, and is known from dozens of specimens.
Gallimimus
Albertosaurus
Daspletosaurus
Gorgosaurus
3: This dinosaur was one of the ostrich-like dinosaurs, reaching a length of 26 feet. It lived during the Maastrichtian Age of the Cretaceous Period, about 70 Ma.
Albertosaurus
Gallimimus
Struthomimus
4: This 'tyrant lizard' lived from 68 to 65.5 Ma, and is one of the most recognized dinosaurs in the world. His name is...

5: The other ostrich-like dinosaur in this section reached a length of 14 feet, and lived about 75 Ma, during the Campanian Age of the Cretaceous Period.
Gallimimus
Albertosaurus
Struthomimus
6: Albertosaurus was a tyrannosaurid dinosaur that lived just after the time of Tyrannosaurus Rex.
True
False
7: This famous Tyrannosaurus fossil shows evidence of a broken and healed fibula and tail vertebrae, scarred facial bones, and a tooth from another Tyrannosaur embedded in a neck vertebra. The largest complete T-rex ever discovered, her name is ______.

8: The largest known T-rex skulls measure up to 5 feet in length, and the largest tooth for any carnivorous dinosaur belonged to a T-Rex, at 12 inches long.
True
False
9: The growth curve for Tyrannosaurus shows that it grew rapidly until it was 10 years old, and then only grew slightly each year after that.
True
False
10: Although small in size compared with its body, the small arm bones of Tyrannosaurus had large areas for muscle attachment. Researchers believe they were used to hold prey, and possibly used to assist in rising from a prone position.
True
False
11: This dinosaur was one of the fastest running dinosaurs, reaching speeds estimated at 31 to 50 miles per hour.
Tyrannosaurus
Gallimimus
Struthiomimus
Albertosaurus
12: The eyes of this dinosaur were located on the sides of its head, meaning that it did not have binocular vision. It also had a short hand compared to others of its type.
Gallimimus
Tyrannosaurus
Struthiomimus
Gorgosaurus
13: Daspletosaurus, Gorgosaurus, Albertosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus lived on a vast flood plain. The western United States was divided at the time by a body of water known as the ______ ______ ______.

14: The unit of rock that contains most of the fossils of Tyrannosaurus Rex is the ___ ____ Formation.

15: This dinosaur lived from 73 to 70 million years ago, and reached lengths up to 33 feet.
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Struthiomimus
Gorgosaurus
Albertosaurus
16: Some paleontologists believe that tyrannosaurids such as Albertosaurus and T-Rex hunted in packs.
True
False
17: Albertosaurus and its tyrannosaurid relatives, unlike most other theropods, had teeth that were different forms depending on their position in the mouth. An animal with this feather is called a :
Polymorph
Heterodont
Dentamorph
Homodont
18: Gallimimus and Struthiomimus both had adaptations that indicated they were good runners.
True
False
19: Gorgosaurus and Albertosaurus are so similar, that some scientists consider Gorgosaurus to be a species of Albertosaurus. They are distinguished by subtle differences in the teeth and skull bones.
True
False
20: The T-Rex specimen nicknamed ________was found to have many bone pathologies, such as broken and healed ribs, a broken and healed neck bone, and a hole in the back of its head about the size of a T-Rex tooth.


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