The Mini Page Quiz
Roaming North America - Land of Dinosaurs
For the week of 1/26/2015
CCSS: reading informational text
Before the Asteroid Hit
The Mini Page explores the final years of the nonavian dinosaurs in North America before a giant
asteroid hit and wiped out all dinosaurs except the
ancestors of birds. The Mini Page teamed up with
the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural
History to learn from their new exhibit, "The Last
American Dinosaurs."
4. Which best completes the graphic organizer?
higher sea
levels
?
1. Which best describes the rate of dinosaurs’
decline 66 million years ago?
A
B
C
D
over millions of years
all at once
quickly
slowly
2. What is the source of the information about
dinosaurs?
A
B
C
D
asteroids
fossils
jungles
volcanos
dinosaurs
living on
Earth
no ploar
ice caps
A
B
C
D
why dinosaurs only ate plants
why dinosaurs lived near volcanoes
Earth’s geography before dinosaurs
Earth’s climate 66 million years ago
5.
Wh ich is m ost like t he r ela t ion sh ip
below?
Triceratops : plant- eating dinosaurs
A
B
C
D
triceratops : skeleton
triceratops : fossil
T. rex : meat - eating dinosaurs
T. rex : crocodile’s brain
3. Read the caption about Edmontosaurus. What
does being a ‘herd animal’ mean?
A
B
C
D
animals that live alone
animals that live in groups
animals that fly
animals that swim
Cynthia McFadden 2015
Ans: 1c/2b/3b/4c/5c