Visiting the dinosaurs

This task is about reading a story and using evidence from pictures to answer questions about animals that once lived. 

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Walking along one day James and Lyn found a time machine! They wanted to go back to when dinosaurs were alive so they climbed in and pressed a button labelled "past".
 
Thud. The machine landed James and Lyn back on a beach. "Look at these dinosaur tracks!" said Lyn.
dinosaur footprints
How many different types of dinosaurs had walked on this part of the beach?  

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James and Lyn walked up the beach. Whoosh, above them flew this animal. "Watch out, it eats meat!" shouted James. 
 
What is one thing about this animal's body which shows it eats meat?

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brontosaurus
They decided that it would be safer in the forest. They came to a gap in the trees, and there in front of them was a brontosaurus standing in a swamp.
What is a swamp?
 
"Look at the long neck it has" Lyn said. "That would be useful". 
How would the long neck be useful to the brontosaurus?

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dinosaur skull
Lyn and James walked further into the forest, they found this skull. "That animal had big horns, I wonder how they were useful?" asked Lyn. 
 
Explain how the horns would have been useful to this animal.

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mammoth
"Let's get out of here, it feels dangerous" said James. They went back to their machine and pressed a button labelled "future".
 
When it stopped next they looked out the window and saw this animal. Lyn said, "I think it looks like a big hairy elephant." 
 
What are two ways a mammoth and an elephant look the same?

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Why did mammoths have so much hair?

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James and Lyn had seen enough of the past, so they pressed the button in their machine to take them to "today".
 
The next day their teacher showed them some old dinosaur bones that had been found in a swamp nearby. 
 
What do we call the remains of animals that are found in swamps or in rocks?
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