Geology World of Dinosaurs

To what major group or clades does this aquatic reptile belong

Plesiosauria

To what major group or clades does this aquatic reptile belong

Mosoauria

To what major groups or clades does this animal belong

Phamphorhycoidea

Snakes evolved from four-legged diapsid reptiles

True

To what major groups or clades does this aquatic reptile belong

Ichthyosauria

TO what major groups or clades does this animal belong

Pterodactyloidea

To what major groups or clades does this aquatic reptile in the center of this painting belong

Pilosauria

What is the likely reason aquatic reptiles turned to a life aquatic during the Mesozoic

The proliferation and diversification of bony fish

To what major group or clades does this animal belong

Pterodactyloidea

Which group of animals had the absolutely largest eyes ever

Ichthyosauria

This paleontologist described Deinanychus and started paleontologist realizing that dinosaurs may have been warm blooded

John Ostrom

Which of the following represents metabolism in which heat is produced by an animals own metabolism

Endothermic

Which of the following represents a metabolism in which heat gathered from outside an animals environment

Ectothermic

Which of the following represents an animal with relatively constant body temperature

Homeothermic

What would we call an animal whos large body size dampens temperature fluctuations

Inertial Homertherm

Which of the following does not support a warm-blooded metabolism in dinosaurs

dinosaurs did not live at the poles

It costs more to feed a 600 lb crocodile than it does to feed a 600 lb lion

False

Theropods and sauropod dinosaurs could breathe with their necks

True

What does this figure imply about dinosaur physiology

Some dinosaurs were mesothermic

Dinosaur predator/prey ratios were low and this suggests that they must have been endotherms

True

Which of the following plant types was not present in Jurassic ecosystems

Angiosperms

All of the following characterized Mesozoic ecosystems except

Large build-up biological waste products

The web of life on earth involves each of the following components except

rebuilders

Which of the following is not an important element present in all living things

Xenon

Energy flows through ecosystems with heat lsot at every step; however, nutrients, water and carbon are _________ through ecosystems

Cycled

What kind of plants are these that are tied to water for reproduction

Pteridophytes

Dung beetles evolved to utilize and decompose feces

True

Which group makes up the largest percentage of biomass on earth

Plants

Which organisms represent the bottom of the food chain in the Mesozoic marine realm

Phytopplankton

Fossilized feces is called

coprolites

If you wanted to use the extant phylogenetic bracket EPB method to study Tyrannosaurus which of the following two organisms would you choose

an alligator and a chicken

Which of the following groups of dinosaurs did not have bizarre structures on the head interpreted as sexual signaling devices

Stegosaurs

Fossilized tree sap is called

Amber

Which of the following is not a likely reason that dinosaurs had feathers

to aid in digging

Which of the following groups of dinosaurs has never been found with feathers even though they may have had them

sauropods

Which of the following groups of dinosaurs had asymmetrical flight feathers

Theropods

WE know what colors were present on some feathered dinosaurs

True

How many eggs did oviraptoran theropod dinosaurs lay at a time

2

How many eggs did pterosaurs lay at a time

1

How many eggs did icthyosaurs lay at a time

0

Which dinosaur below is actually the same size as the velociraptors in Jurassic Park

Utahraptor

Velociraptor had feathers

True

Tyrannosaurus rex likely could run at 35 miles per hour

False

Dilophosaurus was poisonous

False

Which of the following plant types did Brachiosaurus never see during the Jurassic

Angiosperms

We have evidence that Gallimimus moved in heards

True

Velociraptor could turn its hands over to be palms down

False

Which of the following dinosaurs was actually from the Jurassic Period

Brachiosaurus

Which of the following dinosaurs was the longest

Spinosaurus

How many dinosaurs do the humans kill in the movie Jurassic Park

0

Taphonomy comprises the study of the processes between death and burial as well as the diagenesis of an organism these processes include each of the following except

attitude

Study of modern decay processes and applying the present to the past is called neotaphonomy

True

A deposit in which many animals get burried in one area over the course of many years is called an attritional deposit

True

Which of the following is not an example of surface subaireal weathering

spiral fractures

Which of the following processes happens only after a bone or shell is buried

diagenesis

The fossils at the Cleveland-Lloyd dinosaur Quarry are preserved in deposits that represent

floodplains and lakes

The fossils indicated in red in this quarry map likely belonged to which of the following species

Stegosaurus

The fossils indicated in green in this quarry map likely belonged to which of the following species

Allosaurus

The fossils indicated in blue are Barosaurus The fossils indicated in yellow in this quarry map likely belonged to which of the following species

Camarasaurus

Which of the following has not been seriously explored as an explanation of the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry bonebed

alien overkill

All of the following major groups of animals first appear in the Triassic except

sharks

Which of the following has not been associated with the supercontinent Pangaea during the late Triassic

glaciers

Which of the following are the rarest group of dinosaurs during the Triassic

Ornithisicians

What is the supercontinent that dominated the Triassic world called

Pangea

What is the ocean that surrounds Pangea called

Panthalassa

Crocodyllians were aquatic during the Triassic

False

The Ischigaulasto Formation in Argentina contains the earliest skeletons of dinosaurs

True

Which geologic Formation in North America is famous for producing Triassic dinosaurs and fossil forests

Chinle Formation

Dinosaurs were the dominant herbivores and carnivores of the Late Triassic

False

The dominant trees in the forests of the Triassic were angiosperms

False

Which of the following statements about the Jurassic is False

The supercontinent Pangea persisted throughout this period

The southern supercontinent during the Jurassic is called Laurasia

False

Which of the following dinosaurs lived in the Jurassic

Ceratosaurus

Late Jurassic ecosystems contained multiple species of large carnivores and multiple species of small herbivores and multiple species of sauropods

True

Which of the following groups did not get its start in the Jurassic

Theropods

Which of the following groups did not get its start in the Jurassic

Birds

Pterosaurs with tails, the rhamphorynchids, were common in the Jurassic

True

Tyrannosauroids got their start in the Triassic

False

Stegosaurus have been found on each of the following continents except

Antartica

Ankylosaurs get their start in the Jurassic

True

Which of the following groups is not found with feathers in the early cretaceous of China

Stegosaurs

The early cretaceous was a time of rising sea levels and warming climates

True

Which of the following was an ornithopod from the Early Cretaceous of England

Iguanodon

Whihc of the following is an important early cretaceous formation from Utah that ahs produced many dinosaurs

Cedar Mountain Formation

Which of the following sickle-clawed dinosaurs did not live in the Early Cretaceous

Velociraptor

Which of the following groups of armored dinosaurs flourished alongside the nodosaurs and akylosaurs

polacanthids

Archaeofructus Lioningensis is a member of what groups of plants

angiosperms

Coevolution occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each others evolution through the process of natural selection The term sometimes is used for two traits in the same species affecting each others evolution

True

Tyrannosaurs had feathers during the early cretaceous

True

The evolution of dental batteries in ceratopsids and hadrosaurids may have been driven by the diversification of angiosperms

True

To date, conclusive remains of ceratopsid dinosaurs have been recovered from which areas except

Africa

Which of the following groups clades of dinosaurs was not present in western North America during the late cretaceous

Stegosaurs

Which of the following factors likely contributed to the origin of new species of hadrosaur and ceratopsid dinosaurs in North America during the late cretaceous

all of these

Which of the following may play a key role in the origin and proliferation of new species

all of these

What feature divided North America into two land masses during the late cretaceous

an epieric sea

An endemic species is one with a broad distribution

false

the end of the cretaceous saw the largest members of each of the following groups except

stegosaurs

True ceratopsids with double rooted teeth, horns and frills only lived in the late cretaceous

True

Truen rain forests existed during the late cretaceous

false

The extinction of which of the following groups likely lead to the increase in size of tyannosaurs

allosaurids