How to Build a Dinosaur Movie Quiz

A  Bones tend to grow brittle as animals age. This dinosaur had strong bones.

B  Some bones fuse together as animals age. This dinosaur had unfused bones.

C  Bones tend to start out more flexible. This dinosaur had flexible bones.

D  At birth, dinosaurs are missing certain bones. This dinosaur was still missing those bones.

A  They found fossil plant leaves and worms inside the stomach area of fruitaden skeletons

B  They have both large mashing teeth for plants and sharp teeth for slicing through insects and worms

C  Small animals require the high energy content of animal protein such as insects and worms

A  They found duck-billed dinosaur bones in the nest next to the eggs of a T-rex

B  They discovered the skeleton of a duck-billed dinosaur inside the stomach area of a T-rex

C  They found bite marks on the duck-billed dinosaur bones that match the shape of T-rex’s teeth

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

C  There is no way to tell a dinosaur’s color. All we get is their fossil bones.

A  About 15 miles an hour — the same as an average human

B  About 90 miles per hour — faster than any land animal alive today

C  About 60 miles per hour — cheetah speed

D  About 40 miles per hour — the same as a race horse

A  Trick question: Feathers are not preserved in fossils

B  They discovered fossilized feathers in Montana in 2008 that were so well preserved that you could actually see the color.

C  They discovered fossilized feathers that preserved the shape of pigment chemicals in the feathers. In modern birds, different shape chemical pigments give different colors.

D  They discovered fragments of actual dinosaur feathers frozen in the ice of a glacier in Switzerland in 1998.

A  Places where sloppy paleontologists damaged bones while excavating them

B  Places where the dinosaur broke its bones while growing up

C  Places where another animal bit the dinosaur

D  Places where muscles and ligaments attach to the bone

A  Solid rock, which is why they are so heavy

B  Plastic, which is why people say that dinosaurs are a conspiracy

C  Bone, which is why they are so fragile