Based on book by Michael Crichton “Chaos with Dinosaurs”

Questions to be answered while watching the video:

1. The story on an island which is off the coast of what country? ________

2. What kind of mine is being worked on in the Dominican Republic? ________

3. What is encased in the yellow rock?________

4. What tools are used to clear dirt from the buried bones? ________

5. Raptor means “________ ”.

6. The “radar” is shot into the ground to find what?________

7. Dinosaurs have more in common with _________ __ than with reptiles.

8. The Cretaceous s__________ _ was when Velociraptors lived.

9. Nedry promises to steal 15 viable __________ _, one of each species.

10. What branch of mathematics does the mathematician study?________

11. What plant was not alive since the Cretaceous time? ________

12. Give an example of one of the security features on the island.________

13. How long is the neck on the Brachyosaurus? ________

14. How fast can a Tyrannosaurus Rex run? ________

15. “They do move in ____________.”

16. DNA is the ___________ of life.________

17. What do the scientists extract from 100 million year old blood? ________ 18. What material is

fossilized to form amber?________

19. What is the robot arm doing to the eggs? ________

20. What prevents the dinosaurs from breeding in the park? ________

21. Velociraptors are (carnivores or herbivores).

22. What did the Velociraptors do that made people think they are intelligent?
________

23. “ ________ is the most awesome force the world has ever seen.”

24. How many years separated the existence of dinosaur and man?________

25. How fast do Velociraptors travel? ________

26. What specialized method does a Dilophosaurus use in hunting? ________

27. What is chaos?________

28. Why didn’t they have a fence protecting the area from Triceratops? ________

29. What are the scientists using the Triceratops droppings to find out?
________

30. What is the T-Rex vision based on? ________ 31. What do the people see that let them know the dinosaur is coming?________

32. Brachyosaurus are (carnivores or herbivores), because they only eat plants.

33. How do the people know the dinosaurs are breeding? ________

34. Lysine is an ________ acid, necessary for life, which has been left out of the dinosaurs in the park.

35. The Gallimimus, move in uniform motion, like a ________ evading a predator.

36. How can the people tell that the electric fence is off? ________

37. What happens when the Velociraptors exhale on the window?

38. According to Dr. Malcolm, “Scientists created dinosaurs just because they could. They never stopped to ask if they _________.”

39. What makes night vision goggles work?

40. The fence in Jurassic Park could transmit 10,000 volts of electicity. How does that compare to the electric current in your house?

41. How does the end of the movie differ from the end of the book?

 

 

Jurassic Park: vocabulary

1 amber

2 amino acid

3 carnivore

4 choas

5 chromosome

6 clone

7 dinosaur

8 DNA

9 embryo

10 extintion

11 fossil

12 genetic

13 herbivore

14 predator

15 raptor

 

 

Jurassic Park: discussion Questions

1. What are some possible reasons for choosing that island for the Jurassic Park?

 

2. What characteristics of the western United States contribute to the preservation of dinosaurs remains.

 

3. In the film they used a type of the radar (actually its sonar) to find a dinosaur fossil. How can sound be used to locate objects?

 

4. With todays technologies it is possible to freeze animal embryos. Describe some reasons or purpose why we would want to.

 

5. In the film not only were dinosaurs brought back into existence, the scientists also brought back extinct plants from the dinosaur period.

 

6. Why would the name "Mesozoic Park" be a more accurate name for the movie than "Jurassic Park"?

 

7. What possible physical characteristics would people use to determine the intelligence of a fossilized animal?

 

8. Sincfe the Velociraptor's breath condensed on the window, what can you conclude about its physiology?