MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
SCAVENGER
HUNT
Hello and welcome to the Museum of Natural History Scavenger Hunt! You and
your team will have a lot of fun exploring this wonderful museum.
At the end of the day your group will go over the answers to the questions
so you can mark your sheet and total up how many you got correct.
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PLEASE NOTE! MUSEUM RULES…
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Look with your eyes; don’t touch with your hands, unless the signs say you can
No running in the museum
Discussion is great, but keep the noise level low
GATHER TOGETHER WITH YOUR SMALL GROUP AND ENTER THE MUSEUM. FIRST,
HEAD UP TO THE FOURTH FLOOR. (USE THE STAIRS IF YOU CAN; THE ELEVATORS
CAN TAKE A LONG TIME!)
4TH FLOOR
THE HALL OF VERTEBRATE ORIGIN
1. What does the word ‘Pterosaurs’ mean?
2. When did they live?
3. What is the name of the largest known turtle?
CAN YOU FIND: A Buettneria? What animal still living today does this
skeleton remind you of?
HALLS OF PRIMITIVE AND ADVANCED MAMMALS
4. What is the name of the largest deer ever to have
lived?
H I N T : It looks
like a reindeer!
5. Can you find the baby mammoth? What animal still living today does the
mammoth remind you of? Draw this animal here:
6. Which animal had the enormous canine teeth of the sabre-toothed cat?
7. Did this animal eat meat?
8. CAN YOU FIND: A Megaloceros?
HALL OF ORNITHISCHIAN DINOSAURS
9. Match the pictures of the dinosaurs with their names:
Triceratops
Stegasaurus
Edmontosaurus
Anatotitan
10. Can you find each of these dinosaurs in the hall around you?
F U N F A C T : Most dinosaurs
became extinct 65 million years
ago. What does extinct mean?
11. What is your favorite dinosaur in this room? Share your answer with your
group. Explain why you like this dinosaur.
HALL OF SAURISCHIAN DINOSAURS
12. How many seagulls are flying above the entrance?
DID YOU KNOW?
That many dinosaurs were
vegetarians? That’s right! They
only ate plants, no meat! You
can identify these dinosaurs by
looking at their teeth, which
are long with round ends, not
sharp like those of the meateating dinosaurs.
13. Can you find two vegetarian
dinosaurs? What is another word
for an animal that doesn’t eat
meat?
14. Find the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
What do its teeth look like? Draw
them here:
What do you think this dinosaur
ate?
15. What is the most interesting thing you learned about dinosaurs in this
exhibit?
1ST FLOOR
Go down the stairs or elevators to the first floor.
HALL OF BIODIVERSITY AND FORESTS
16. CAN YOU FIND THESE ANIMALS?
18. Draw and label three other plants or animals that you found:
NORTH AMERICAN MAMMALS
19. Find your favorite animal in this room and complete as much
information on this fact card about the animal as you can:
ANIMAL IDENTITY CARD
Type of
animal:______________________________________
How big is this animal?
_______________________________
What does it eat?
____________________________________
Where does it live? __________________________________
Why is it your favorite animal? _________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
HALL OF OCEAN LIFE
20. C A N Y O U F I N D : A fish that looks like Nemo? What
kind of fish is this?
21. Why do some fish light up underwater?
ANIMAL
ID
22. How much does a blue whale
weigh?
23. How long does a blue whale live?
24. What does a blue whale eat?
DID YOU KNOW?
BLUE WHALES are the
largest animals that have ever
lived. An elephant weighs the
same amount as the tongue of a
blue whale! (It’s the same as
three school buses!)
25. Each animal has its own unique way of communicating. Humans talk to
each another with words and body motions. How do dolphins talk to each
other?
26. What was the
smallest?
BIGGEST animal you saw today? Which was the
27. Which animal had the most colors? What was the strangest
looking animal you saw?
28. Draw your favorite animal here: