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Dinosaur Detectives

A long-neck dinosaur beside a rock with a fossil

A fossil is a remain or a trace preserved in rock. Fossils are evidence. Scientists study that evidence. Ideas we only imagine are not evidence.

1.Match the dinosaur

Write the letter of the match.

  1. 1. Tyrannosaurus
  2. 2. Diplodocus
  1. A. Scientists think it ate meat because it had sharp teeth
  2. B. Scientists think it ate plants because it had a long neck and peg teeth

2.Evidence or imagination?

  1. 1. Which size sentence is fair?

  2. 2. Which idea do we know from fossils, rather than only imagine?

3.Draw a fossil discovery

Draw a fossil in rock and a careful scientist finding it.