Find the missing word.Complete the sentences based on the articles.
1. The fastest water mammal is
.. .
2. The largest animal on land is
.. .
3. The oldest animals are
.. .
4. The most venomous animal is
.. .
5. Archelon, a
animal lived in
America 74 million years ago.
6. Archelon had a
of around 100 years.
7. Arctodus simus, the largest
... ever to walk on Earth.
8. Arctodus simus was a
.. , meaning that it ate only meat.
9. Arctodus may have become
.. because its prey died out.
10.
.. show that moved quickly along the floors of ancient forests.
11. Arthropleura s diet was
.. . It hunted for small animals and ate rotting leaves as well.
12. When Arthropleura lived on Earth, the oxygen
.. of the atmosphere was high, and there were no large
.. living on land.
13. The closest living relatives of Beelzebufo are
.. of South America.
14. . Beelzebufo probably lived on dry land, in arid
.. .
15. Brontornis burmeisteri is the third
ever to have lived on Earth.
16. It probably hid in wait for
.. and then pounced on it after chasing for a short while.
17. The teeth of Dunkleosteus were
.. .
18. They also may have been among the first vertebrates to reproduce by
.. .
19. At the time of the dinosaurs
.. , nearly 50% of all animal species also became
.. .
20. One reason insects are so diverse and tremendously successful is that their basic structure is
.. .
Match the word with its meaning.
| 1. fertilization
| a. the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates
| | 2. species
| b. the remains or impression of a prehistoric plant or animal embedded in rock and preserved in petrified form
| | 3. relative
| c. home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism
| | 4. fossils
| d. a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding
| | 5. carnivore
| e. the process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth
| | 6. invertebrate
| f. the action or process of applying a fertilizer to soil or land or the process involving the fusion of male and female gametes to form a zygote
| | 7. nutrition
| g. an animal that feeds on other animals
| | 8. environment
| h. an animal lacking a backbone
| | 9. behavior
| i. a species related to another by common origin or a person connected by blood or marriage
| | 10. habitat
| j. the way in which one acts or conducts oneself, esp. toward others
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Find the missing word.
| 1. Very little is known of the true nature of these turtles because so few fossils have discovered.
| | | 2. The largest sea turtle ever lived on Earth, weighed more than two tons.
| | | 3. The Beelzebufo ampinga frog is thought to spent most of its time on dry land.
| | | 4. In its own environment and time it was largest land predator.
| | | 5. This lowered the level of oxygen in the atmosphere, causing giant arthropods, become extinct.
| | | 6. Arctodus simus being an obligate carnivore did not rely any vegetation for nutrition.
| | | 7. It thought that the Archelon had a lifespan of around 100 years.
| | | 8. This predatory bird fed ancient relatives of the armadillo, which were as large as small cars.
| | | 9. Many official world records held by humans could easily beaten by some wild animals.
| | | 10. The Beelzebufo frog can be compared modern day horned toads.
| | | 11. The largest bear ever to walk on Earth weighed up 2500 pounds.
| | | 12. It hunted for small animals and ate rotting leaves well.
| | | 13. They also may have been among the first vertebrates reproduce by internal fertilization.
| | | 14. Arctodus may become extinct because its prey died out.
| | | 15. Insects make about three fifths of all of all known plant and animal species on Earth.
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