GEOL 104  Dinosaurs: A Natural History
Documentary Review II: The Dinosaurs!: Flesh on the Bones

This video will be made accessible to you via Dial Access (in the Non-Print Media Room, on the fourth floor of Hornbake Library).

The order of the questions follows the sequence of the film.

1)  What species (two word, underlined name!) of dinosaur was found by Tom & Kathy Wankel in Garfield County, Montana one Labor Day?

2)  What genus of dinosaur found by Dr. John Ostrom changed his, and others, view of dinosaurs?

3) Dr. R. McNeill Alexander was able to make conclusions about how fast dinosaurs ran because:
		a. he could time a living Iguanodon on a race track in England.
		b. animals run with the same basic movements, only at different speeds.
		c. dinosaurs look just like big dogs.

4)  In the Painted Desert, Irby & Farlow applied Alexander’s formulae to multiple tracks of [  quadrupedal  |  bipedal  ] dinosaurs.

5)  [  Warm-blooded  |  Cold-blooded  ] animals can be more active at night.

6)  What do endotherms (warm-blooded animals) have to do all the time?
	a. eat		b. sleep		c. recharge from the Sun	d. drink
Extra Credit)  Dinosaurs are found on every continent.		  (True or False)

7)  According to the estimates quoted, during the Late Cretaceous, the North Slope of Alaska was about how warm during the summer?
a.	tropical temperatures, like modern Brazil
b.	cool temperate temperatures, like modern New England
c.	same as today: deep Arctic conditions often below freezing in summer

8)  In order to determine the metabolic rate of the modern leatherback turtle, Dr. Spotila and his colleagues had to measure the turtle’s mass and its:
	a. breath.	b. food intake.		c. length.		d. color.

9) Dr. Jack Horner hypothesized that dinosaurs were warm-blooded because of the characteristics of cross-section of dinosaur:
a. coprolites.		b. bones.		c. teeth.		d. eyes