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Practice Listening: Highlight Correct Summary ID: #33211 Medium extinct animals

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To understand what extinct animals such as dinosaurs eight, we can compare their tooth types to the range of tooth types that we see with modern animals, such as carnivorous and herbivorous animals. So when we look at a tiger skull, we can look at aspects of its dentition or its teeth to understand what it ate. So when we see pointed and sharp teeth, we can see that they are very well adapted for slicing, shearing, and cutting flesh. Unlike the tiger, when we look at a herbivorous animal, a horse, we can see that it's teeth are arranged in a nice, flat, grinding surface. And so when the top and lower teeth fit together, they actually grind up plant material. When we look at fossils like this one, which belongs to an alice, or we can see teeth that are conical and re curve backwards with sharp points answer eighty dead jizz. But these kinds of clues tell us that this animal was a meat eating animal. Now we'll look at the jaw of a hadrosaur on one side. You can see many of its teeth. When we turn it around, you can see a long, flat, grinding surface. By comparison, we can infer that this animal was also a plant eater, just like the horse that showed us a very similar kind of dentition. This animal also ate plants and other tough fibrous material.

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Tigers have sharp, curved teeth for slicing meat, while horses’ teeth are flat for grinding plants. Similarly, amongst dinosaurs, allosaurs have sharp, straight, conical teeth that were well adapted for crushing the bones of other dinosaurs, while hadrosaurs had flat teeth for eating grass and similar materials. We can tell what kind of food an extinct animal such as a dinosaur ate by examining its teeth and jaw and comparing them with present-day animals. Sharp, serrated teeth imply that it was a carnivore, whereas flat surfaces for grinding tough fibres suggest a herbivorous diet. Hadrosaurs, like horses, were adapted to a vegetarian diet. Their teeth were flat and designed for grinding tough material such as plants, though they were sometimes ground down to a flat surface. This led to problems with dentition. Allosaurs, on the other hand, like tigers, had sharp teeth for eating meat. Researchers have found that dinosaurs had the same kinds of diet-related issues with their dentition as modern-day animals. Meat-eaters in particular had tooth cavities due to bacteria in their food. However, herbivores also had problems due to their teeth being ground down as they chewed on tough plant fibres.

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Option 1: "Tigers have sharp, curved teeth for slicing meat, while horses’ teeth are flat for grinding plants. Similarly, amongst dinosaurs, allosaurs have sharp, straight, conical teeth that were well adapted for crushing the bones of other dinosaurs, while hadrosaurs had flat teeth for eating grass and similar materials."
Explanation: This option incorrectly states that allosaurs had teeth adapted for crushing bones, which is not mentioned in the text. The text focuses on the comparison of teeth types between modern animals and dinosaurs without specifying bone-crushing adaptations. Additionally, it does not accurately summarize the main idea of comparing tooth types to infer diets.
Option 2: "We can tell what kind of food an extinct animal such as a dinosaur ate by examining its teeth and jaw and comparing them with present-day animals. Sharp, serrated teeth imply that it was a carnivore, whereas flat surfaces for grinding tough fibres suggest a herbivorous diet."
Explanation: This option accurately captures the main idea of the text, which discusses how the examination of teeth types can indicate the dietary habits of both extinct and modern animals. It correctly identifies that sharp teeth suggest a carnivorous diet while flat teeth indicate a herbivorous diet, aligning perfectly with the examples provided in the text.
Option 3: "Hadrosaurs, like horses, were adapted to a vegetarian diet. Their teeth were flat and designed for grinding tough material such as plants, though they were sometimes ground down to a flat surface. This led to problems with dentition. Allosaurs, on the other hand, like tigers, had sharp teeth for eating meat."
Explanation: While this option correctly states that hadrosaurs and horses had flat teeth for grinding, it introduces the idea of dentition problems and the specific mention of allosaurs, which is not supported by the text. The text does not discuss any issues with dentition or provide details about allosaurs, making this option partially correct but ultimately misleading.
Option 4: "Researchers have found that dinosaurs had the same kinds of diet-related issues with their dentition as modern-day animals. Meat-eaters in particular had tooth cavities due to bacteria in their food. However, herbivores also had problems due to their teeth being ground down as they chewed on tough plant fibres."
Explanation: This option introduces new information about diet-related issues and tooth cavities that are not mentioned in the text. The focus of the text is on how tooth types indicate dietary habits rather than on dental problems, making this option irrelevant to the main idea presented.

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