1. What are the advantages of studying dinosaurs? What are the challenges facing paleontologists? Is it worth it to study dinosaurs? Why or why not?
2. What personality traits does Nizar have that helped him to find Spinosaurus? Do you
have any of these traits? How do you use them?
3. Nizar uses new technology, combined with fossils and old documents, to understand
Spinosaurus. Name another way that new technology can be used to help people
understand something old?

Imagine you have 24 hours to change into any sea creature. which creature would you choose to be? describe what you life would be like during your time under the ocean.

Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

Use morphology and syntax to make grammatical sense of the following sentence (mark all that the ova of all mammals except the monotremes undergo holoblastic segmentation. the -s inflection indicates that monotremes is a plural noun. the suffix -ic indicates that holoblastic is an adjective. the suffix -ation in the word segmentation is a noun-forming suffix denoting a process. the -s inflection indicates that monotremes is a possessive noun.