Page 5 - DINOSAUR ALPHABET A - Z with FACTS and Vocabularies

Be familiar with these terms as you read on.

Bipedal: (of an animal) using only two legs for walking.

Carnivore: Carnivores eat meat (and other animal tissue) to get the calories and
energy to survive. Meat is a high energy food source.

Carnivorous: (of an animal) feeding on other animals. Meat eaters.

Herbivorous: (of an animal) feeding on plants. Plant eaters.

MYA: Million Years Ago

Omnivorous: (of an animal or person) feeding on food of both plant and animal origin.
In other words, an animal that eats both plants and meat.

Ornithopods (ornithopoda): They are a group of medium to large plant-eating
dinosaurs.

Ornithischia (ns): Ornithischia is an extinct clade of mainly herbivorous dinosaurs
characterized by a pelvic structure superficially similar to that of birds.

Sauropods: Sauropods were herbivorous (plant-eating), usually quite long-necked
quadrupeds (four-legged), often with spatulate (spatula-shaped: broad at the tip,
narrow at the neck) teeth.

Terrestrial habitat: Terrestrial habitats are ones that are found on land, like forests,
grasslands, deserts, shorelines, and wetlands.

Theropods: Theropods are a dinosaur clade that is characterized by hollow bones and
three-toed limbs. They are generally classed as a group of saurischian dinosaurs.

Jurassic Period: The Jurassic Period was the second segment of the Mesozoic Era.
It occurred from 199.6 to 145.5 million years ago, following the Triassic Period and
preceding the Cretaceous Period.

Cretaceous Period: Cretaceous Period, in geologic time, the last of the
three periods of the Mesozoic Era.