Cave Animals

The BatWhy learn about the bat?

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Objectives1. Given a description of a cave animal, students will be able to identify which cave animal it is with 100% accuracy.2. Given a photo of a cave animal, students will be able to describe what characteristics the animal possesses with 100% accuracy.3. Given this PowerPoint Presentation, the students will be able to answer the six quiz questions with 100% accuracy.

Oops!C is incorrect! Cave harvestmen eat something like an insect!

Cave Harvestmen ReviewWhat is harming cave harvestmen?A. SnakesB. BatsC. Fire ants

Review Video

Quiz Question 1Bats are mammals.A. TrueB. False

What do bats look like?Bats are mammals, like people. Bats are black or brown with wings.

What do bats eat?Bats eat insects, fruit, fish and frogs!

How do bats sleep?Upside down!In groups

How do bats hunt?Bats make very high-pitched noises and if it bounces off something they know not to fly there!

What are their babies like?Babies are called pupsBorn without hairDrink milk from their momLike humans, are normally born 1 at a time

How long have they been around?Bats have existed for 50 million years!

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Oh no! A is incorrect. Bats dont have that great of taste, but their ears are very good!

What do cave harvestmen look like?They are very tiny!They look like spiders with yellow bodies.

What do they eat?They eat hexapods, which are a lot like insects.

Where do cave harvestmen live?In cavesIn places where the temperature is always the same

How do they survive?They get their nutrients through the water in the ground.

What are their threats?Fire ants!

What does their future look like?If people keep taking over caves, they will go extinct.

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I think youre ready to take the quiz!You completed the lesson!Congratulations!!Works Citedcool-kids-craft-ideas.comblogs.discovermagazine.comentomology.umn.eduen.wikipedia.orgfishfreakscichlids.comscience.howstuffworks.compaperbats.wordpress.comaustralianmuseum.net.auflickr.comhttp://www.scientificamerican.com/report.cfm?id=bat-guidefdocc.blogspot.comutexas.edulivelikedirt.blogspot.compicture-newsletter.com

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