Miss Jennifer Wallace

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How Are Dinosaurs Named?

• Miss Jennifer Wallace
• Prepared for seventh grade science lesson on
  dinosaurs

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What is a dinosaur?

• Sir Richard Owen coined the word dinosaur,
  meaning "fearfully great lizard," in 1842. In
  Greek, "deinos" means "fearfully great" and
  "sauros" means "lizard."

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How Are Dinosaurs Named?

• Unusual Head Names
• Short-horned face
• Helmet lizard
• Level (flat) head
• Ornate dome
• Think-nosed head
• Crested lizard
• Three-horned head

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How Are Dinosaurs Named?

• Unusual Body Parts
• Heavy claw
• Arm lizard
• Horned lizard
• Sharp-point tail
• Terrible hand
• Lightweight lizard
• Fully-armed lizard
• Spiny lizard
• Spiked lizard
• Heavy lizard

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How Are Dinosaurs Named?

• Teeth
• Star tooth
• Terrible tooth
• Different-tooth lizard
• High-ridged tooth
• Iguana tooth
• Tiny-tooth lizard
• Wounding tooth (picture to the right)

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How Are Dinosaurs Named?

• Feet
• Short-footed lizard
• Terrible claw
• Leaping foot
• Swift foot

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How Are Dinosaurs Named?

• In honor of a person
• Charles Sternberg
• Edward Drinker Cope
• Lawerence Lambe
• Othniel C. Marsh

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How Are Dinosaurs Named?

• After a place
• Alberta, Canada
• Andes Mountains
• Colorado Formation in Argentina
• Denver, Colorado
• Edmonton Formation in Canada
• India
• Lesotho, South Africa
• Utah
• Szechuan, China

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How Are Dinosaurs Named?

• Guessed Behavior
• Good mother lizard
• Egg thief
• Speedy robber

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Lets take a quiz about dinosaurs!
Click on the button to print out an activity
sheet.
Circle true if the question is true and false if
the question is false.
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Answers
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References

• Learning and research at http//www.EnchantedLearn
  ing.com/subjects/dinosaurs/
• Some Pictures and information from
  ZoomDinosaurs.com

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Activity Sheet