Real dinosaurs and their look-alikes

Science · Dinosaurs & Paleontology · ages 5-7

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Where did a plesiosaur live and swim?
- On dry land
- Up in the sky
- In the sea
Look at the three animals. Which one could fly?
- The T. rex
- The pterosaur
- The triceratops
Pterosaurs and plesiosaurs were dinosaurs.
Circle one: True False
An animal has a long neck, flippers, and swims in the ocean. What is it?
- A dinosaur that swims
- A pterosaur
- A plesiosaur, not a dinosaur
A flying reptile with wings is in a dinosaur book. What is it really?
- A baby dinosaur
- A pterosaur, not a dinosaur
- A plesiosaur
In real life, Velociraptors had feathers. How do movies usually show them?
- With feathers, just like real life
- With scaly skin, no feathers
- As plants instead of animals
All movie dinosaurs look exactly like the real animals did.
Circle one: True False
Leo saw an animal flying and said, 'It must be a dinosaur.' What is wrong with what Leo said?
- Flying animals like pterosaurs were not dinosaurs
- All animals that fly are dinosaurs
- Dinosaurs could always fly

Answer key

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In the sea · Plesiosaurs swam in the sea using their flippers. They were not dinosaurs.
The pterosaur · The pterosaur had wings and could fly. It was not a dinosaur.
False · They lived at the same time as dinosaurs, but they were a different kind of animal.
A plesiosaur, not a dinosaur · Long necks and flippers in the ocean belonged to plesiosaurs, not dinosaurs.
A pterosaur, not a dinosaur · Flying reptiles with wings are pterosaurs. Dinosaurs could not fly.
With scaly skin, no feathers · Movies often give Velociraptors scaly skin, but real ones were covered in feathers.
False · Movies sometimes make dinosaurs bigger, scalier, or a different color than they really were.
Flying animals like pterosaurs were not dinosaurs · No dinosaur could fly. The flying animal in the picture is a pterosaur, a different kind of reptile.