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27 Cards in this Set
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fossil |
print or remains of an animal that lived long ago |
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petrified |
turned to stone |
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ancient |
very, very old |
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paleontologist |
a scientist who studies fossils |
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excavate |
to dig or scoop out |
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extinct |
no longer lives on Earth |
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dinosaur |
a reptile that lived long ago |
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carnivore |
meat-eating animal |
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herbivore |
plant-eating animal |
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omnivore |
both plant and meat-eating animal |
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Archaeopteryx |
a meat-eating ancestor to the modern day bird |
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Compsognathus |
a chicken-sized meat-eating dinosaur; bipedal |
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Barosaurus |
a very tall, plant-eating dinosaur with a long neck; quadrupedal |
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Iguanodon |
a plant-eating, duck-billed dinosaur with thumb spikes; bipedal |
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Dilophosaurus |
a meat-eating dinosaur that traveled in groups and caught and ate other dinosaurs; bipedal |
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Triceratops |
a plant-eating dinosaur with 3 horns on its head; quadrapedal |
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Tyrannosaurus Rex |
a huge, meat-eating dinosaur with tiny arms; bipedal |
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Stegosaurus |
a plant-eating dinosaur with plates on its back and spikes on its tail; quadrupedal |
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Oviraptor |
a meat and plant-eating dinosaur that protected eggs |
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Ankylosaurus |
a plant-eating, armored dinosaur which had a club tail used for defense; quadrupedal |
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Spinosaurus |
a meat-eating dinosaur with a spin fin-like piece along its back; usually bipedal |
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Pteranodon |
a close relative of the dinosaur whose name means "winged and toothless" |
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predator |
an animal that catches and eats another animal |
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prey |
an animal that is caught and eaten |
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skeleton |
the bones of an animal that when put all together form the outline of the animal's body |
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biped |
walked on two feet |
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quadruped |
walked on four feet |
