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Grade 5. Topic 17. Importance of South African fossils Flashcards

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What is a fossil record?

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Fossil record the fossils have been discovered in a place and the information about them, such as their age

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What is a fossil site?

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Fossil site is a place where fossils are found

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What is the name for human fossils?

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Hominid

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How many fossil sites are there in South Africa?

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There are over 30 fossil sites in south africa

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Where in South Africa do we find lots of fossil plants?

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Fossil plants grow in wet places Kwazulu Natal & Karoo

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What important fossil animals have been found in South Africa?

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Dinosaurs and the Coelacanth

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What insect has not changed in almost 200 million years?

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The cockroach

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Name 3 kinds of fossil insects that have been found in the Free State, Eastern Cape, Gauteng and Lesotho

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Dragonflies,
Cockroaches,
Crickets

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The AFRICAN DINOSAURS related to what modern day animal?

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The african dinosaur is related to the modern day animals lizard, crocodile and birds

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Tell me about the LESOTHOSARAURUS

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He was discovered in Lesotho.

Was the smallest dinasoaur, size of a chicken.

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Tell me about the EUSKELOSAURUS

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Lived in the Karoo
220 million years ago
4 - 9meters tall
Weighed 1800kilograms

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Tell me about the AULACEPHALODON

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Was a mammal fossil
Covered in fur
Lived 250million years ago
Size of a young hippopotamus
Found in the Eastern Cape & Lesotho
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What fossils were found near Cape Town. ( Lagebaanweg) about 5 million years ago.?

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Carnivorous bears
Sabre tooth cats
Short nek giraffe

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What kind of animal was the COELACANTH

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Fish

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Describe a COELACANTH

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LARGE Fish, with 4 leg like fins.

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What happened on December 1938

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We thought the Coelacanth was extinct about a hundred million years ago.
A fisherman caught a very strange fish in a net off East London on that date. It was a Coelacanth

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Are there still Coelacanths living today?

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Yes they are, living in the very deep waters off the coast of Kwazulu Natal

18
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What is the area near Sterkfontein caves in Johannesburg called?

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Cradle of humankind

19
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Is the “Cradle of human kind” a world heritage site?

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Yes

20
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How old are some of the early Human bones found at Cradle of humankind?

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5 million years

21
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What did early human kind look like?

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Ape-man
Smaller brains
Bigger teeth

22
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Who is Mrs Ples?

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Skull found in the Cradle of mankind. Thought it was women but later discovered it was a young boy

23
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Who is Little Foot?

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An almost complete ape-man skeleton.
Found in Cradle of mankind.
3 - 4 million years old.

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