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Dinosaur Vocabulary Quiz
Directions:
Match the vocabulary words on the left with the definitions on the right.
| 1. herbivore |
the
scientific study of life in past geologic periods through examination
of animal and plant fossils. |
| 2. predator |
an
animal that feeds on plants. |
| 3. prey |
the
remains or trace of a living organism from an earlier geologic age,
embedded in earth or rock. |
| 4. carnivore |
the
inner framework of bones and cartilage in vertebrate animals, which
supports and protects the softer body parts, or the hard external
shell of invertebrates and some vertebrates. |
| 5. skeleton |
one
of various extinct reptiles that lived approximately l00 million
years ago and included the largest land creatures. |
| 6. paleontology |
no
longer existing, as an animal species. |
| 7. extinct |
a
flesh-eating animal, esp. a meat-eating mammal. (Cf. herbivore.) |
| 8. fossil |
an
animal that eats the flesh of others. |
| 9. prehistoric |
of,
pertaining to, or existing in a time prior to written history. |
| 10. dinosaur |
the
object of a hunt or pursuit, usu. one animal caught and eaten by
another. |
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