Graph Master
This color light resulted in the lowest amount of bat activity.
What is green?
Paragraph 3 uses this word to describe the flexible material a bat's ear is made of.
What is cartilage?
Bats hunt at night, so they use this sense instead of their eyes to find prey.
What is hearing?
The researchers conducted this study for this many total years.
What is four years?
This is the "Control" group—it shows how bats act when humans don't add any light at all.
What is "No artificial light"?
This verb in Paragraph 3 means to "send out" or "release" a sound wave.
What is emits?
High-pitched sound waves do this when they hit an insect (it rhymes with "detect").
Name the two times of year (seasons) when the researchers recorded the bats.
What are early summer and late summer?
True or False: Bats are twice as active in Red light as they are in White light.
What is True? (Red is at ~65, White is at ~32
Paragraph 3 mentions the "External Structure" of the ear. Does "External" mean the inside or the outside?
What is the outside?
The bat's brain calculates the location of a bug based on this specific "amount" of measurement.
What is time? (How long it takes the sound to return).
To make sure the light was the only thing changing, the researchers chose this type of "natural habitat."
What is an otherwise dark habitat?
If a park ranger wants to protect bats but needs a light for safety, this color is the best choice according to the data.
What is Red?
This 10-letter word describes light that is man-made rather than from the sun or moon.
What is artificial?
This part of the ear "funnels" the sound waves toward the inner ear.
What is the external structure (or ear flap)?
This was the specific "unit" scientists used to measure activity (How did they count the bats?).
What is the number of times a bat passed by?
True or False: The Y axis is a vertical line on a graph.
True
The place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows.
What is habitat?
Which 3 body systems do the students mention in their claims?
What is the nervous, muscular and respiratory systems?
This system is responsible for processing echolocation signals.
What is the nervous system?