1. Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Museum Tour
Laurie Hutchinson
Willowcreek Middle School
Alpine School District
Copyright 2005

2. Exhibit Case Introduces the Entry way
Dinosaur Tracks were found by Rick O’Hearon from Utah in the Black Hawk Seam in Carbon County coal mines. He found the tracks while working in the coal mine.

3. Entry Display Case Questions
How do they identify the tracks?
What can the tracks tell you about the dinosaur?
What is the type of scientist that study footprints? (Ichmologist)

4. South Exhibit Hall Paleozoic Era
Start Here
Formation of the earth
Devonian Period
Pre Cambrian / Cambrian Periods
Paleozoic Period
Quarry Area / Fossil Lab
Jurassic Period

5. First Room – Model Quarry
Rock Types
Plate tectonics
Fossils
Lab for Research
Model Quarry

6. First Room – Model Quarry
3 Rock Types
Igneous Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks

7. First Room – Model Quarry Questions
What are the 3 rock types?
How are each of these types formed?
What is the “detrital action”
What is an example of chemical action?

8. First Room – Model Quarry
Plate Tectonics
Pangea Breaking Apart

9. First Room – Model Quarry
Fossils
Museum Displays
Bones Fossilize
Animal Dies
Sediments Cover it
Erosion Occurs

11. TODAY’S
FOSSIL FUELS

12. First Room – Model Quarry Questions
Plate tectonics
What is happening to Mt. Timpanogos each 10 years?
What type of region was found at Mt. Timpanogos years ago?
What is happening to the Atlantic Ocean since 1492?
What is the crust floating on?
What causes Earthquakes and volcanoes?