This board helps players review Dinosaurs & Ice Age through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Deep Time: Eras & Boundaries, Dinosaur Clades & Traits, Fossil Legends & Locales, Ice Age Beasts & Humans, Ice Age Climate & Landforms. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.
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The middle period of the Mesozoic, between Triassic and Cretaceous, famed for giant sauropods.
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Jurassic
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The 'tyrant lizard king' with a massive skull and tiny forelimbs.
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Tyrannosaurus rex
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First dinosaur eggs found by AMNH expeditions came from this Asian desert.
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Gobi Desert
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A shaggy elephant with curved tusks that roamed the steppe-tundra.
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Woolly mammoth
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Repeated growth of continental ice sheets and alpine glaciers during colder climates.
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Glaciation
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Deep Time: Eras & Boundaries
- $100 — The middle period of the Mesozoic, between Triassic and Cretaceous, famed for giant sauropods.
- Jurassic
- $200 — Earth’s current interglacial epoch that began after the Pleistocene.
- Holocene
- $300 — The last peak of ice extent in the recent ice age, abbreviated LGM.
- Last Glacial Maximum
- $400 — A global spike of a rare element at the K–Pg boundary used as impact evidence.
- Iridium anomaly
- $500 — A surge of fern spores just above the K–Pg boundary signaling post-impact recolonization.
- Fern spike
Dinosaur Clades & Traits
- $100 — The 'tyrant lizard king' with a massive skull and tiny forelimbs.
- Tyrannosaurus rex
- $200 — Feathered theropods including Velociraptor and Deinonychus belong to this group.
- Dromaeosaurids
- $300 — The 'lizard-hipped' dinosaur clade that includes theropods and sauropodomorphs.
- Saurischia
- $400 — A Late Triassic dinosaur whose name means 'dawn thief,' among the earliest known.
- Eoraptor
- $500 — A hip condition with the pubis pointing backward, characteristic of ornithischians.
- Opisthopubic
Fossil Legends & Locales
- $100 — First dinosaur eggs found by AMNH expeditions came from this Asian desert.
- Gobi Desert
- $200 — A Dorset fossil hunter who found ichthyosaurs and helped launch paleontology.
- Mary Anning
- $300 — The famous 'Berlin specimen' is a pristine fossil of this feathered icon.
- Archaeopteryx
- $400 — The 'Fighting Dinosaurs' fossil shows Velociraptor locked with this beaked ceratopsian.
- Protoceratops
- $500 — An Alberta rock unit along the Red Deer River that yields rich Late Cretaceous faunas.
- Dinosaur Park Formation
Ice Age Beasts & Humans
- $100 — A shaggy elephant with curved tusks that roamed the steppe-tundra.
- Woolly mammoth
- $200 — Big cats with elongated upper canines, exemplified by Smilodon.
- Saber-toothed cats
- $300 — An elephant relative with cusp-covered molars, distinct from mammoths’ flat plates.
- Mastodon
- $400 — A Paleoindian culture known for fluted points and mammoth hunts on the Plains.
- Clovis culture
- $500 — A two-word idea that attributes Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions to human hunting.
- Overkill hypothesis
Ice Age Climate & Landforms
- $100 — Repeated growth of continental ice sheets and alpine glaciers during colder climates.
- Glaciation
- $200 — A ridge of till marking a glacier’s farthest advance across the landscape.
- Terminal moraine
- $300 — Wind-blown silt that blankets many mid-latitude plains and river valleys.
- Loess
- $400 — Sinuous ridges of sand and gravel deposited by subglacial meltwater streams.
- Eskers
- $500 — An abrupt North Atlantic cooling near the end of the last ice age, named for a tundra flower.
- Younger Dryas
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