Dinosaur chapter Flashcards

1
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misconceptions

A

dinosaurs represent failure and extinction, dinosaurs and humans coexisted, dinosaurs were either all hot blooded or all cold, dinosaurs book or tv are true, dinosaurs all lived and died at that same time, an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, archaeologists dig up dinosaurs, pallentologist do

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2
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terrestrial reptiles

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lived on land, 2 or 4 legs walking on

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3
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are flying animals around the dinosaur time dinosaurs?

A

no

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4
Q

how are dinosaurs related to the other reptiles?

A

more advanced than most living reptiles, distingusihing features

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5
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distinguishing features

A

stance

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6
Q

what stance did they start at?

A

sprawling, spread apart

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7
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what stance did they end in?

A

erect, up right

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8
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what are the two major groups of dinosaurs?

A

lizard hip, bird hip

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9
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how are the groups defined/

A

according to their hip bones

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10
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Dinosaur biology

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hard to figure out if they were hot or cold blooded, what color, feathers or not, bone structure

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11
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how do we know what they ate?

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teeth, poop, things found in poop

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12
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how do we find out the environment?

A

reading the rock/what life was like for the dinosaurs

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13
Q

what happened to the dinosaurs

A

K/T mass extinction

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