SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2015
© 2016 by Vicki Whiting, Editor
Jeff Schinkel, Graphics
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Vol. 32, No. 4
Mark each statement about
Dreadnoughtus TRUE or FALSE.
Check your answers with the
math problem below each
statement. Sums that add up to
even numbers are TRUE.
1. Dreadnoughtus was a
herbivore.
5 + 3 + 2 =
77 million years ago, a large,
LARGE dinosaur wandered
parts of planet earth. It has
been named Dreadnoughtus.
Scientists think Dreadnoughtus
was the largest beast ever to
walk on planet earth.
Dreadnoughtus
would tower over
an elephant and
even a T-Rex!
Dreadnoughtus was discovered
by Kenneth Lacovara, PhD,
of Drexel University. Because
of its huge size and evidence
that the long tail was used as a
weapon, it was named after the
massive British dreadnought
battleships.
2. Dreadnoughtus weighed as
much as 12 squirrels.
3 + 3 + 1 =
3. Dreadnoughtus lived in
what is now southern
Argentina.
12 + 4 + 4 =
4. The top of the Dreadnough-
tus’ shoulders was two
stories high.
No one knows for sure what color
t h e skin of a Dreadnoughtus might
the
h
a v been. Use your imagination
have
a
and crayons to color these.
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5. Dreadnoughtus had to eat
nearly 24 hours a day to
support such a large body.
“With a body the size of a house, the weight of a herd of
elephants, and a weaponized tail, Dreadnoughtus would have
feared nothing,” Lacovara said. “That evokes to me a class of
turn-of-the-last century battleships called the Dreadnoughts,
which were huge, thickly clad and virtually impervious.”
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6. The fossil remains were
transported to Philadelphia
and scanned with a laser
scanner in order to study the
bones and estimate size.
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Dreadnoughtus had a neck that was 37-feet long.
They used their long neck to reach _____________
in tree tops.
The __________ of the Dreadnoughtus
SLIFSOS
found in southern Argentina revealed that
They could __________ in one place and reach a
wide area of trees. It wasn’t easy to _______
such a large body on land, so it would want to
_______ as much as it could without
moving. The long neck helped with that.
the _________________ weighed as much
ARIDSONU
as 12 ______________.
7. The original discovery
revealed 115 bones.
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8. The Dreadnoughtus’ skull
size is about the size of a
pig.
PHETANSEL
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Their ________ did not weigh
much, so they could lift their
head!
This Dreadnoughtus was
as long as two school
_____________!
SESUB
Scientists believe that the discovered
Dreadnoughtus was still ___________
WOGRGIN
when it _________. We don’t know how
DDEI
big it might have eventually become!
How many dinosaurs can you find here?
DISCOVERED
ELEPHANTS
SQUIRRELS
DINOSAUR
CENTURY
WEAPON
FEARED
BEAST
CHECK
HUGE
CLAD
WALK
HIGH
KNOW
BODY
On one page of the
newspaper, find
and circle each of
the letters that spell
dreadnoughtus.
Connect each
circled letter in
order to spell the
word. Color in the
shape you make!
9. One of its neck muscles is
over a yard across.
7 + 6 + 7 =
10. Dreadnoughtus lived at the
same time as the early
humans.
3 + 3 + 3 =
11. The Dreadnoughtus
fossil that was found is
believed to have drowned in
quicksand.
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W H F U B G H A H Y
D E R E V O C S
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K C E H C N K D R E
Look through the newspaper for examples off
five compound words (a word formed by
combining two other words: table + spoon =
w o
wo
tablespoon). Separate each word into the two
words and make up the compound word.
ANSWER: A dino-snore!
Standards Link: Vocabulary: Identify compound words.
This week’s word:
IMPERVIOUS
The adjective impervious
means unmoved and not
affected by outside influences.
My raincoat was
impervious to rain.
Try to use the word
impervious in a sentence
today when talking with your
friends and family members.
If you could give the whole
world a gift, what would it
be? Why this gift?
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