Chiropterology
The Study of Bats
The Study of Bats
Bats are the only mammal capable of ________.
What is flight?
True or false: Spider silk can be stronger than steel and thinner than a human hair.
What is true?
When we are experiencing the Winter Solstice in the Northern hemisphere, those in the Southern hemisphere are experiencing the _________.
What is the Summer Solstice.
"Carnivore" is a term that can be used to refer to animals in the order Carnivora or animals that eat _______.
What is meat?
This word comes from nahuatl words meaning "ashes" and "cornmeal."
What is nixtamalization?
Bats are mammals. They are warm blooded. They have hair, and they make ______ for their babies.
What is milk?
An organ in a spider that produces spider silk is called a _________.
What is a spinneret?
When we are experiencing the Vernal Equinox in the Northern hemisphere, those in the Southern hemisphere are experiencing the _________.
What is the Autumn or Fall Equinox?
Taxonomy is divided into: Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and ________.
What is Species?
Nixtamalization is achieved by soaking maize/corn in wood ash and water. This makes a bound version of B3, also called this_______ bioavailable.
What is niacin?
Bats are most active at night, a pattern of behavior known as being _________.
What is nocturnal?
True or false:
Spider silk can only be pushed out of the spider.
What is false. It can only be pulled.
The change of the seasons is caused by a tilt in the earth's ______.
What is axis?
True or false:
All members of order Carnivora eat a strict meat-only diet.
What is false?
Without a source for niacin or B3, people can develop a ________-shaped rash and condition known as Pellagra.
What is a butterfly?
Bats can be herbivores, carnivores, insectivores or this type of creature that drinks blood to survive:
What is a sanguivore?
Acinoform spidroin is the type of silk that spiders use to wrap up their prey. It is called that because the bundled prey looks like clusters of tiny _______.
What are grapes?
When leaves change their colors in the fall _______ is degrading and no longer being replaced.
What is chlorophyll?
An animal that MUST eat meat to survive is called an ___________ carnivore.
What is obligate?
Name the "three sisters" that work together in many indigenous garden designs.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
The wings of bats and the hands of humans are __________ structures. They evolved from the same thing, even thought they do different jobs.
What is homologous?
Spidroin harden after its pH level is lowered below neutral. That means that spider silk is _______.
What is acidic?
Photoperiodism can cause behavioral and physical changes in animals like entry into hibernation or change in the color of fur or feather and is brought on by changes in the _______ of the days.
What is the length?
All members of order Carnivora have carnassial teeth even though cat-like carnivores and _____-like carnivores split off from each other around 50 million years ago.
What is dog?
These compounds in acorns must be leached out in order to make them palatable to be eaten. These same compounds can be used to tan leather.
What are tannins?