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22 The Liberty Bell ©Teacher Created Resources 127 #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading Warm-Up Check Your Understanding / 4 Name ______________________________________________ 1. What subject do paleontologists study? a. eggs c. fossils b. living animals d. people 2. From the context of the passage, what can you infer led to the nickname “Big Mama”? a. The mother probably fed other dinosaurs to its young. b. the protective position of the oviraptor c. the number of eggs d. both a and b 3. What likely killed “Big Mama”? a. a snowstorm c. water b. a large dinosaur d. a sandstorm or a collapsing sand dune 4. Which of the following pieces of information is not relevant to the discovery of the oviraptor? a. “Big Mama” carefully laid its eggs in a circle. b. It brought food for its young. c. Oviraptor means “egg thief.” d. The bones were buried in sediment. In the early 1990s, dinosaur hunters from the American Museum of Natural History in New York went on an expedition. They traveled to the Gobi Desert in central Asia. The leaders, Michael Novacek and Mark Norell, intended to explore the area where an earlier expedition had taken place. During this quest, scientists found dinosaur eggs and one of the largest dinosaur graveyards in the world. What they found stunned the world of paleontology, the science that studies fossils. A nest discovered by Norell had a child-sized oviraptor in it. It was sitting on at least twenty eggs. The dinosaur’s front limbs were wrapped around them. It appeared to be trying to protect the eggs in a devoted manner. Because of this, the scientists nicknamed her “Big Mama.” Had her eggs survived, this mother oviraptor probably would have hunted other small meat- eating dinosaurs to feed her young. The dinosaur lived about seventy million years ago. It was likely killed by a fierce sandstorm or a collapsing sand dune. Over time, the soft tissues of the muscles, skin, and organs rotted away under layers of sand and sedimentary rock. Minerals from ground water seeped into the bones and eggs and fossilized them. Did You Know? Download 10.24 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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