Coring Activity.

You only need to complete Part One. We will do Part 2 in class.

A Coring Activity (Law of Superposition Lab)

You are a team of paleontologists (people who study dinosaurs and other ancient wildlife). You have been sent on a mission to study a particular type of dinosaur. In order to do this, you must use what you know about the law of superposition to determine what geologic earth layer you may find your dinosaur in.


Materials:
Different colors of Play dough
A color coded geologic time map
Dinosaur card (one per team)
Dinofiles or dino-folio (books or card portfolios with information about different dinosaurs)

Procedure:
There are two parts to this activity.
Part 1
Your team has been given a list of different dinosaurs to find and a sample of sediment layers. However, the list is not in any particular order. First, you will need to place the dinosaurs in geologic order. Then, take a core sample from your layers and using the color-coded time map, identify which geologic sediments are present. From this, identify the dinosaurs that you would be likely to find.

Part 2
This part uses the dinosaur card. Your team has discovered that this dinosaur has somehow escaped extinction and you want to help it become comfortable living in the 21st century. In order to do this, you must find out as much information about your dinosaur and its habitat as you can from the materials available. This includes the following:
- Where and when the dinosaur lived (be specific here)
- What the habitat of that time period was in that particular area
- What the dinosaur ate and what, if anything, hunted or ate it
Once you have gathered this information, write out how you would use this information to allow your dinosaur to live comfortably in this century.


Geologic Time Chart:

White: Present Day
Blue: Tertiary/Quaternary Periods
Red: Cretaceous Period
Green: Jurassic Period
Yellow: Permian,Trassic Periods


Here’s the list of prehistoric life for Part One:
Tyrannosaurus Triceratops Plateosaurus
Diatryma Elasmosaurus Opthmalosaurus
Apatosaurus Allosaurus Maiasaura
Therizinosaurus Gallimimus Deinonychus
Smilodon Megatherium Velociraptor
Wooly Mammoth Pteranodon Deinosuchus
Stegosaurus Amargasaurus Brachiosaurus
Dimetrodon Eryops Suchomimus
Coelophysis Spinosaurus Kentrosaurus
Giganotosaurus Iguanodon Ankylosaurus
While you are working as a team, each student is responsible for turning in their own written work .