Dinosaurs Pages 8-9 (Q)

The author says that "Some [dinosaurs] were the most colossal creatures ever to have lived on land." Which of the following is a synonym for the word colossal?

• aggressive

• gigantic

• powerful

• terrifying

How do we know what dinosaurs looked like?

• We have found cave paintings that represent dinosaurs

• He have found dinosaur parts frozen in glaciers

• We have found fossilized bones

• Scientists have looked at unhatched eggs.

Which of the following is NOT true about dinosaurs?

• All dinosaurs had scaly skin, long tails, teeth, and four limbs.

• The smallest dinosaurs were about the size of birds.

• Dinosaurs could have scaly skin and feathers.

• Some dinosaurs lived in the oceans.

Which of the following is the best example of a sprawling gait as used on page 8.

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Why do you think the illustrator included the graphic of the human on this page?

• To show that humans have out-lived the dinosaurs

• To show that dinosaurs could be much larger than a human

• To show that humans are just as powerful today as dinosaurs were in the past

• To show that humans have discovered dinosaurs of the past.