From saurischian hips to saber-toothed showdowns, challenge your mastery of Mesozoic dinosaurs and Pleistocene ice—extinctions, clades, classic fossils, glacial landforms, and human links. This is a Middle School Science review game in a Jeopardy-style format: a teacher puts the board on one screen, teams pick clues by point value, and the class answers out loud — no student devices or accounts needed. Categories: Deep Time: Eras & Boundaries, Dinosaur Clades & Traits, Fossil Legends & Locales, Ice Age Beasts & Humans, Ice Age Climate & Landforms.
- Middle School Science review
- Whole-class review on one shared screen
- Test or quiz prep
- Team-vs-team practice in class
A peek at what's on the board — 5 categories and one sample clue from each. Answers stay hidden until you open them, so the game still works.
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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Board content
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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