Search This Blog

Friday, October 21, 2016

The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley

Book: The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
Author:  Barbara Kerley
ISBN: 0-439-11494-2
U-$1.00-B-0.0046743907-BE-214

Go to Questions
Go to Directory of Articles & Books

Answer Key

1. The story takes place in 1853.
2. London is the setting at the beginning of the story.
3. The character painted animals.
4. The name of the character is Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins.
5. The character was building dinosaurs.
6. The Crystal Palace Museum was the building that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert built.
7. No, people didn't know what dinosaurs looked like.
8. Scientist Richard Owen helped Waterhouse.
9. Answers will vary, he wanted to be accepted by the other paleontologist of the time.
10. The scientist dined inside of an iguanodon.
11. Crystal Palace is located in Sydenham Park.
12. 40,000 spectators attended the regal ceremony.
13. Waterhouse came to the United States in 1868.
14. Waterhouse visited New York City.
15. Central Park in New York City wanted Waterhouse to build them a dinosaur.
16. Hadrosaurus and Laelaps were the dinosaurs that Waterhouse was going to build.
17. Waterhouse was known for being the first to build a complete dinosaur skeleton.
18. The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia is the museum that Waterhouse presented with the Hadrosaurus.
19. The Paleozoic Museum was built in Central Park.
20. William "Boss" Tweed stopped work on the Paleozoic Museum.
21. Waterhouse made his speech on March of 1871.
22. Waterhouse went to Princeton University in New Jersey after New York City, then the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.
23. Waterhouse was 21 years old when he completed his work in the U.S.
24. Iguanodon skeletons are found in a coal mine in Belgium.
25. Waterhouse's cottage was named Fossil Villa.

No comments:

Post a Comment