Week 2 Day 4

What are fossils?

• Remains of ancient life

• Remains of modern life

• Remains of future life

• Remains of alien life

What did the team of paleontologists find in Mongolia's Gobi Desert in 1923?

• Fossilized reptile eggs

• Fossilized bird eggs

• Fossilized dinosaur eggs

• Fossilized fish eggs

What did Roy Chapman Andrews initially think the toothless dinosaur was doing near the fossilized eggs?

• Eating the eggs

• Protecting the eggs

• Stealing the eggs

• Ignoring the eggs

What did the team from the Museum find in the same desert 70 years later?

• Fossil eggs with developing baby dinosaurs

• Fossil eggs with developing baby mammals

• Fossil eggs with developing baby birds

• Fossil eggs with developing baby reptiles

How did the adult Citipati dinosaur protect the eggs in the nest?

• By stealing the eggs

• By eating the eggs

• By ignoring the eggs

• By brooding with its arms spread to shield the eggs

What group of dinosaurs includes Citipati and Oviraptor?

• Velociraptor

• Oviraptorids

• Triceratops

• Tyrannosaurus rex

What did scientists notice about the group of dinosaurs called theropods over 100 years ago?

• Similarities with birds

• Similarities with fish

• Similarities with mammals

• Similarities with reptiles

What did scientists discover about theropods that made the link with birds even clearer?

• They laid eggs

• They laid rocks

• They laid shells

• They laid leaves

What is the meaning of the word brooding in paragraph 6?

• howling in excitement

• eating eggs

• sitting on a nest

• sleeping in a den

Which sentence from Crenshaw best shows how the narrator and Marisol are similar?

• I want to be an animal scientist.

• I also like cheetahs and cats and dogs and snakes and rats and manatees.

• For a while, my friend Marisol and I both wanted to be paleontologists and search for dinosaur fossils.

• She used to bury chicken bone leftovers in her sandbox for digging practice.