Ready to start your virtual
Dinosaur Dig?
Click on
the link in "I Dig Dinosaurs" to view a movie
of finding, digging, and excavating
dinosaur bones.
This is an hour long movie with a "commercial"
at the beginning for the dance program
at Ball State University
in Indiana. Move the diamond on the Quick Time Player to 11:30 to
begin
the actual dinosaur
dig. Once to the site, scroll down to the "View here" button.
As you go through your Movie Quest, you will experience your virtual Dinosaur Dig!
While
you're watching the movie between minutes 11:30 and 15:23 answer
the following questions:
1. What states are they working in?______________________ Outside
of what city?__________________
2. What is "Dinosaur Diamond?"____________________________________________________________
3. What is this formation called? ____________________________________
4. What year was the apatasaurus found on this location? _______ Who discovered
it?________________
5. How large is the forearm of the brachiosaur?________________________________________________
6. Where are these skeletons on display?_____________________________________________________
Please
feel free to pause or rewind the movie at any time to help answer your
questions.
Questions
to go with minutes 15:30 to 36:00:
7. How do you know where to start digging for dinosaur bones?____________________________________
8. How do you recognize dinosaur bone fragments? (We saw these in
class!)_________________________
9. What is the definition of a "fossil"?_________________________________________________________
10. Briefly
describe how the T-Rex in the cartoon video clip became a fossil.__________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
11. Why is
it important to make good observations and to take good notes
as a scientist?________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
12. When
was the quarry they're working in discovered?_________
13. How did
the teeth marks get on the dinosaur's hip bone?_______________________________________
14. How do
Paleontologists piece together the environment in which dinosaurs lived?
(Give examples)
______________________________________________________________________________________
15. How old
was the person who discovered the dinosaur egg in this quarry? _____
16. What
are the stories that broken dinosaur bones can tell? (name 3)_______________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
17. Approximately
how big is the allosaur claw the man is holding? _________________________________
18. How did
this area get its name?___________________________________________________________
19. At the
time of this movie, they had been digging from 1982 to 1999, how many years
is that? ________
How many dinosaurs were found during that time?_____________
20. What
geologic time zone is recorded in the rock of this quarry? _________________________________
21. What
was the first bone found by Mr. Mogatt? _____________________________________
What did he think it originally was?_______________________________________________
Questions to go with minutes 36:00 to 47:00
22. What
are the tools that paleontologists use to "dig out" a dinosaur bone?
________________________________________________________________
23. Why haven't
any Triceratops been found in this quarry?__________________________________
24. Both
Triceratops and T-Rex lived in the _____________________ period,
at the ______ of the age of the dinosaurs!
25. Which
tool do "dinosaurs diggers" use the most?_____________________________________
26. Once
the top of a dinosaur bone is uncovered, what has to happen next before
it is sent to a museum?
Describe the process:__________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
27. What are the
"A, B, C, D's" of the dinosaurs found in this quarry?______________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
28. Write your
reaction to the process of extracting a dinosaur bone from its rock matrix
to get it ready for
display at a museum:___________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Questions
to go with minutes 47:00 to 58:00
29. What steps are needed
to "put flesh on the bones" of a dinosaur and make it "come to
life"?
___________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
30. What is the largest
bone found that was all in one piece from this quarry?_________________________
How did they get it into the museum building?________________________________________________
Conclusions: What geologic
time period do the bones in this quarry come from?______________________
How long ago was this time period?___________________
How do scientists know this?____________________________________________________