Honduran Ghost Bat Vocabulary
Name ___________________________ Date ______________
Use these words to fill in blanks in the sentences below:
agile, seeds, leaf-nosed, mammal, echolocation, tent-making, regenerate, nocturnal, fruit.
1. The Honduran ghost bat has a funny nose that looks like a tiny, yellow leaf in the middle of its face. You could say that it's ___________________.
2. Ghost bats are _______________. They sleep in the day and hunt at night.
3. A bat is a flying _____________. Bats are warm-blooded, have four-chambered hearts, and nurse their young.
4. ____________________ bats chew the mid-ribs of big leaves and roost underneath them.
5. Bats are _____________ climbers. They use their thumbs to grab and hold onto leaves and branches.
6. To find their way through the dark, ghost bats make high squeaks that echo when they hit objects. This is called _______________________.
7. Ghost bats eat _____________ and drop ___________ in their dung, planting trees all over the forest.
8. Because they plant so many trees, ghost bats and other bats can help _________________ rainforests.
Name ___________________________ Date ______________
Use these words to fill in blanks in the sentences below:
agile, seeds, leaf-nosed, mammal, echolocation, tent-making, regenerate, nocturnal, fruit.
1. The Honduran ghost bat has a funny nose that looks like a tiny, yellow leaf in the middle of its face. You could say that it's ___________________.
2. Ghost bats are _______________. They sleep in the day and hunt at night.
3. A bat is a flying _____________. Bats are warm-blooded, have four-chambered hearts, and nurse their young.
4. ____________________ bats chew the mid-ribs of big leaves and roost underneath them.
5. Bats are _____________ climbers. They use their thumbs to grab and hold onto leaves and branches.
6. To find their way through the dark, ghost bats make high squeaks that echo when they hit objects. This is called _______________________.
7. Ghost bats eat _____________ and drop ___________ in their dung, planting trees all over the forest.
8. Because they plant so many trees, ghost bats and other bats can help _________________ rainforests.