Dinosaur chapter Flashcards
misconceptions
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
terrestrial reptiles
lived on land, 2 or 4 legs walking on
are flying animals around the dinosaur time dinosaurs?
no
how are dinosaurs related to the other reptiles?
more advanced than most living reptiles, distingusihing features
distinguishing features
stance
what stance did they start at?
sprawling, spread apart
what stance did they end in?
erect, up right
what are the two major groups of dinosaurs?
lizard hip, bird hip
how are the groups defined/
according to their hip bones
Dinosaur biology
hard to figure out if they were hot or cold blooded, what color, feathers or not, bone structure
how do we know what they ate?
teeth, poop, things found in poop
how do we find out the environment?
reading the rock/what life was like for the dinosaurs
what happened to the dinosaurs
K/T mass extinction
