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The Albertosaurus Mystery

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