Hello! If you enjoy learning about dinosaurs like we do you may like to have a go at our quiz!
All the answers can be found here on this website http://www.dawndinos.com
1. The DAWNDINOS team is testing a major hypothesis for why dinosaurs did well across the Triassic-Jurassic transition and most members of the crocodile lineage did not. What is that hypothesis?
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2. The living relatives of Triassic crocodiles include…………? …………. and the living relatives of Triassic dinosaurs are …… ? ………, both of which we are looking at in our study.
3. Which continents do our study species derive from?
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4. Why is the DAWNDINOS research team looking at the anatomical data from the living relatives of Triassic crocodiles and dinosaurs when the study is about extinct animals?
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5. Why is “XROMM” (biplanar fluoroscopy) important as a scientific method?
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6. Why do we use both experiments and computer models to study how animals work?
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7. Which early Jurassic dinosaur moved around on 4 limbs when it was born but became bipedal (moved on 2 limbs) as it grew up.?
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8. What does the DAWNDINOS logo represent?
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9. What 2 methods do we use to generate digitised bones from fossil animals?
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10. A question from our Activities page (You may like to try the activity before answering!)
When lifting a bucket of water at arms’ length our muscles operate at a _____? ___ mechanical advantage, but when lifting the bucket close to the chest our muscles operate at a ____? ____ mechanical advantage.
11. Below are artistic reconstructions of some of the extinct archosaurs we are looking at in the DAWNDINOS study. What are they called?
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12. Among the animals we are investigating, which species was most closely related to Poposaurus?
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