When dinosaurs ruled the earth
Lesson Brief
BBC Arabic
Recent excavations have shed more light on the theory that certain dinosaurs originated in South America and crossed Antarctica nearly 100 million years ago to arrive in Australia. According to the article, the dinosaurs would have been able to make the journey over frozen lands at the time, when the earth's atmosphere was warmer than today. The attached video is about dinosaur fossils in Bolivia.
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Video Vocabulary:
تحول إلى ، يتحول إلى | To turn into | المحميات الطبيعية | Nature reserves |
يحتوي على | It contains | لانزلاق التربة | Sliding of soil |
آثار أقدام الديناصورات | Dinosaur footprints | إحصاء | counting |
Click and Match
- (here) the treasure
- الغنم
- to shed light on
- اَلْقَى ضوأ على ، يُلْقِي ضوأ على
- covered with rocks
- مغطاة بالصخور
- skeleton
- الهيكل العظمي
- to influence
- أَثَّرَ على ، يُؤَثِّرُ على
- to conclude
- ُإِسْتَنْتَجَ ، يَسْتَنْتِج
- our knowledge
- معرفتنا
- to be categorized , classified
- ُتُصَنِّف
- this theory
- هذه النظرية
- family tree
- شجرة العائلة