Vocabulary Quiz Bats (Science Week 10)

An order of mammals that comprises the bats. There are over 900 living species of bats, and they are found 

    on every continent except Antarctica.

• Dusk

• Echolocation

• Chiroptera

• Habitat

Done, occurring, or active at night.

• Nocturnal

• Mammals

• Megabats

• Ecolocation

A warm-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that is distinguished by the possession of hair or fur, the secretion of milk by females for the nourishment of the young, and (typically) the birth of young life.

• Chiroptera

• Nocturnal

• Habitat

• Mammals

Do not echolocate, but instead eat fruit or nectar.

• Ecolocation

• Megabats

• Mammals

• Dusk

The darker stage of twilight.

• Echolocation

• Dusk

• Megabats

• Habitat

The location of objects by reflected sound, in particular that used by animals such as dolphins and bats.

• Nocturnal

• Echolocation

• Dusk

• Mammals

The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism

• Habitat

• Mammals

• Echolocation

• Dusk

Mostly use echolocation and catch insects, but just a few eat fish or drink blood

• Mammals

• Echolocation

• Megabats

• Microbats