1. How many kinds of bats are there in the world?

2. The Honduras white bat makes tents. What does it use to make the tent?

3. What makes the Congress Bridge in Austin, Texas special?

4. Use your online research skills to learn the most common bat in your area.

5. Name three kinds of places bats call home.

6. What are the wings of bats made of?

7. Write another fact about the wings of bats.

8. How do people use bat droppings?

9. Why is the Indiana bat endangered?

10. Bats use echolocation to find objects in the dark. echolocation info
Name three things echolocation tells a bat about an object.

a.

b.

c.

11. Calculated to challenge - How many bugs can a bat eat in one 3 hour evening?

How is this important to the ecosystem?

Check out the pie chart about Yearly Behavior Cycle for bats. Circle the correct answer.
How much time do they spend in hibernation?

12. What happens to bats when people disturb them during hibernation?

While you were reading that last page did you see - What do they call baby bats? ____________________________

13. Yuck or Yum? Name the people who eat bats. _________________________________________________

14. Did you ever hear the saying (idiom) "she has bats in her belfry"? What does it mean?
Use the Select a dictionary to choose the idiom dictionary. Tip: Enter bats in belfry in the search box. Click - look it up.

15. Scan this bat interview. Write another question to ask the bat.

16. Take the bat quiz "Bat you do well!" ~*~

17. Go find out. How many books about bats does Amazon.com offer? _____________________

How about at your school's library or at your community library? _________________________

Write the title of your favorite bat book. ____________________________________________________________________

I really like Bats at the Beach by Brian Lies.

18. Write one myth about bats or a bat fact.

19. Based on the article What Is Killing Bats? what action(s) should people take?

20. Some bats are (circle the correct words)

~*~ Extras:

* You have decided to erect a bat house.
Use the resources in your library, as well as information you've learned in this hunt, to create a proposal for your parents, your principal, your PTO or your local elected officials.
Consider: equipment, concerns/fears, location, value to the community.

* Which of the websites that you visited during this hunt would be helpful to you in writing the proposal? Why?

* Go Digging:  Bat pollinators are important to some plants. Explain.

~*~ You worked hard to answer all the questions. Try these batty activities.

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1999 Cynthia J. O'Hora FAQ Updated 9/2008, Posted 10/99

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