Statistics for Time of the Dinosaurs facts

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Question	Answer	% Correct
What was the middle period? (Hint: has a famous movie named after it)	Jurassic	100%
Name the "Lizard King" that lived during the final dinosaur period	T-rex	100%
What was the first period that dinosaurs roamed the earth?	Triassic	100%
Did carnivorous or herbivorous dinosaurs develop first?	Carnivorous	88%
What was the final period in which dinosaurs lived?	Cretaceous	88%
In what era did dinosaurs roam the earth?	Mesozoic	75%
What percent of marine species are thought to have gone extinct due to the above?	90%	63%
Was the earth warmer or colder compared to now during this time?	warmer	63%
What is the main classification used to decide if a creature was a dinosaur?	Hip structure	38%
What is the name of the extinction event linked to the death of dinosaurs?	K-T	38%
Another type of reptile that lived alongside the dinosaurs were:	lizards, turtles, crocodiles	38%
Where is the site of an asteroid impact that contributed to the above?	Yucatan peninsula	38%
What continent did the first dinosaurs live on?	Pangaea	25%
What is another name for the Mesozoic? The age of _____	Reptiles	25%
How long (roughly) was the Mesozoic era?	180 million years	13%
What extinction occurred prior to dinosaurs evolving?	end-Permian	13%
Name of the supercontinent beginning with an L that formed during the mid Mesozoic?	Laurasia	13%
What group of dinosaurs had "lizard-hips"?	Saurischia	13%