Dinosaurs

Reading Comprehension - Language Arts

Part 1.

Read the description and circle the correct answer.

1.        I was meat-eating dinosaurs, and it could walk on two legs, this left their hands free to grab the animals they wanted to eat.

a.        Gallimimus

b.        Allosaurus

c.        Apatosaurus

 

2.        _______________________ used its tail as a weapon.

a.        Parasaurolophus

b.        Ankylosaurus

c.        Gallimimus

 

3.        _______________________ has a big tube on its head and it was a plant eating dinosaur.

a.        Gallimimus

b.        Parasaurolophus

c.        Allosaurus

 

4.        _______________________ run very fast. It could probably run about 70 kilometers per hour.

a.        Gallimimus

b.        Ankylosaurus

c.        Apatosaurus

 

5.        _______________________ was much bigger than the meat- eating allosaurus.

a.        Parasaurolophus

b.        Apatosaurus

c.        Gallimimus

 

 

 

 

Part 2.

Read and circle the correct.

 

1.        Who discovered the dinosaurs nest in 1978?

a.        Charles Darwin.

b.        Dr. Horner

 

2.        How many baby dinosaurs did Dr. Horner find in the first nest?

a.        5

b.        10

c.        15

 

3.        What did the mother maisaurus bring to her babies?

a.        Meat and fish

b.        Leaves and berries

c.        Eggs and water.

 

4.        What does Maisaurus mean?

a.        Big dinosaur

b.        Baby

c.        Good Mother Dinosaur

 

Part 3. True & False

1.        Trace fossils are made from things a dinosaur left behind. For example: Food prints or a nest. ________

 

2.        All dinosaurs ate meat. ________

 

3.        All the dinosaurs lived under the water _______

 

4.        Some dinosaur were plant-eating dinosaurs ___________

 

5.        Some dinosaurs walked on two legs. _________

 

6.        Gallimimus dinosaurs could run very fast. _________

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