Question
1: Before you venture into the dinosaur world, I would like to test your understanding of the requirements for this course as explained in the syllabus and associated web pages. Please answer the
following:
a. You have completed the weekly homework assignment and submitted it on time. However, you skipped the last question. Can you still receive 50 points if your other answers are all correct?
Please explain.
b. How many points are the first week’s assignments worth altogether? c. How late in the course can the first week’s quiz and written homework be submitted? d. You joined in our weekly
discussion for the week and posted 8 times on the last day of the week (Sunday). But you only received 5 of the 20 points possible. Why? e. How fast can you speed up the Panopto lesson
recordings? f. What was one of your favorite questions on the Practice Quiz?
Question 2: Since you have started reading Chapter 15, you know a bit about Dr. and Mrs. Gideon Mantell. Our textbook presents some basic information about them. Please use the Internet to
find something more about them beyond the information in our textbook. What are two additional bits of interesting information on the Mantells? For example, what else did they contribute to our
knowledge of dinosaurs? Or how did the study of dinosaurs affect their personal lives for the better and/or for the worse? For full credit, include the website address (or addresses) that you have
used for your research on this topic.
Question 3: Having finished reading Chapter 1, you now know the first steps on where to look for dinosaur bones! According to our textbook, what three “basic search criteria” maximize the
likelihood of finding dinosaur fossils in particular rocks? Please explain each one in a complete sentence.
Question 4: Let’s say that a friend of yours comes up to you after the first week of class.
He or she asks: “Hey, I heard you are taking that dinosaur class. Pretty cool! But, you know, I read on Facebook that dinosaur fossils are forgeries. I wonder if scientists are just creating those
bones in their labs and then burying them to dig up later.”
