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The Albertosaurus Mystery

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    Vocabulary & Comprehension
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  • What does uncovering mean? Sara was uncovering the hole so we could see.
    closing
    shutting
    filling up
    opening to view
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  • Choose two words that mean the same as fierce.
    soft and easy
    wild and weird
    wild and dangerous
    weird and dangerous
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  • What does prove mean?
    things to help solve a mystery
    facts that help people find out the truth
    to show by using facts
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  • Choose two words that mean almost the same as fossils.
    clues and dinosaur
    trace and remains
    trace and clues
    dinosaur and remains
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  • What does the word location mean? The location of the dinosaur bones was unknown.
    land
    road
    water
    place where something is
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  • Fill in the sentence: The scientists dug up ___________ from ancient animals.
    skeletons
    buried
    remains
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  • Barnum saw his first fossil when his family ____________ pulled one out of the ground.
    cat
    elephant
    plow
    dog
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  • Barnum left Columbia University to become a _______________.
    doctor
    bone hunter
    research technician
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  • Barnum dug up the first _____________ skeletons in the early 1900's.
    tryceratops
    tyrannosaurus rex
    wholly mammoth
    chicken
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  • Tell me if the following statement is a fact about Albertosaurus. They were meat eaters?
    fact
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  • Tell me if the following statement is a fact about Albertosaurus. They had flat teeth?
    Not a fact
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  • Tell me if the following statement is a fact about Albertosaurus. They could see and smell well?
    fact
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  • Tell me if the following statement is a fact about Albertosaurus. They were not fierce animals?
    not a fact
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  • Tell me if the following statement is a fact about Albertosaurus. They were smaller than the T-Rex?
    fact
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  • Choose a word for the sentence: Brown had not made a map or written down where he found the ______________.
    photos
    clues
    evidence
    fossils
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  • Why were Barnum Browns Albertosaurus bones in the basement for so long?
    The bones were too big and heavy to display
    People did not realize how important the bones might be
    Philip Currie wanted to keep them a secret
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