A: Great plant-eating dinosaurs roaming the earth, feeding on lush plants such as ferns and palm-like cycads and bennettitaleans. Smaller but vicious carnivores stalked the great herbivores. Oceans full of fish, squid, and coiled ammonites, plus great ichthyosaurs and long-necked plesiosaurs. Vertebrates taking to the air, like the pterosaurs and the first birds. This was the Jurassic Period, beginning 210 million years ago andlasting for 70 million years of the Mesozoic Era.

Q: Species evolve and adapt to changees in their enviroment. What changes in the earth could affect what humans will look like in the future? What inprovements might be made?

A: Many things could effect the evolution of man kind. One example is increas in climate the increas in climate would cause certain groups of people to excell. Our skin would become a dark tan and skin would retain water. We might even evolve to have cold blood.

Q: Sketch one of your fovorite dioramas or scenes in the museum. Briefly describe the reasons why you chose this scene or diorama.

A: This was my favirot diorama because it demonstrated how big the dinasuras were.

By Jonathan R. Derry
Ms. Vale
Math, Period 3