Dinosaur Vocab Crossword

an animal’s ability to change so it can survive its environment.
an animal that eats the other animals.
usually made when mud filled the area where a dead animal was, creating a fossil.
means “terrible lizard,” and describes a group of extinct animals that lived MYA.
everything that surrounds a living thing and affects its growth and health.
to uncover artifacts by using special tools to dig carefully.
no longer living or existing.
a group of closely related plants or animals.
the remains, or trace, of a living animal or plant from a long time ago.
the relative age of various geological periods and their absolute time intervals.
an animal that only eats plants.
an animal that eats both plants and animals.
bird-hipped dinosaur.
the study of prehistoric life.
a division of geologic time, such as Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous.
earth’s crust is made of different shifting plates, creating volcanoes and earthquakes.
lizard-hipped dinosaur.
one long walking step, or the distance it covers.