Worksheet Answers

Here’s all the answers to worksheet questions

A Year in a Bat’s Life

1. There are not enough insects to eat and they save energy by hibernating.
2. ROOST
3. JUNE
4. MILK
5. 3 weeks or thereabouts
6. Open question
7. Open question
8. The eight words are: Insect, Echolocate, Fly, Mammal, Bat, Pup, Attic, Roost.

Our Irish Bats

1. Brown
2. Dublin and Belfast
3. The Zoo
4. Warm
5. Bats are born without fur
6. Nine
7. Open question

What’s so Special About Bats?

1. Mammals
2. The female Brandt’s bat was ringed in Russia in the 1960s and was refound 41 years later with the same ring.
3. ECHOLOCATION
4. Insects
5. Bats eat insects that may bite us or harm our crops, they pollinate plants that we eat or use, they disperse seeds in tropical forests.
6. Kitti’s HOG-NOSED bat
7. Thailand
8. Bumblebee Bat, Hibernate, Wings, Echolocation

Are Bats Blind?

1. ECHOLOCATION
2. Open question
3. No
4. ULTRASOUND
5. Bat detector