Dinosaurs w hat is a dinosaur Dino diets Excavation Paleontology HOME What is a dinosaur The Word Dinosaur is a Latin word Dino mean They lived thousands of years ago in three different time periods ID: 296704
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Dinosaurs
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hat is a dinosaur?
Dino diets
Excavation
Paleontology
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What is a dinosaur?
The Word “Dinosaur” is a Latin word. “Dino” meanThey lived thousands of years ago in three different time periods:
The Triassic periodThe Jurassic periodThe CretaceousSlide3
Dino diet
There were many types of dinosaurs, all had different eating habits. But there are three categories in which we place them in when considering their diets.Carnivores: Carnivores ate only meat and had very sharp pointy teeth to chew through tough meat with. What famous dinosaur was a
carnivore?Herbivores: Herbivores ate only plants and had flat teeth to gnash plants with. What dinosaur was a herbivore? Omnivores: Omnivores ate both plants and meat. The had sharp back teeth to chew up tough meat and flat round teeth for gnashing plants. Who is an
omnivore?Slide4
A Tyrannosaurus rex (t-Rex)
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A STEGOSAURAS
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Excavation
What is excavation?Excavation is the act of digging something up.
When excavation happens, something is dug up and studied by and paleontologist. Then once analyzed we can learn more about things or cultures that have died off.But who digs up these bones and studies them? Click the bones to find out!Slide8
Paleontology
What is paleontology?
Would being a paleontologist be a fun job?!By studying old dinosaur bones and fossils we can learn more and more about that giant creatures that used to roam this world.