Question

bats

1. bats get a bad wrap for being creatures that have the night. bats dont see well. bats eat bugs and insects. bats are creatures of the night.
2. bats use echolocation when they fly. so they use echolocation by making a sound which then bounces off objects. when the sound waves bounce off objects, it makes an echo which alerts the bats where they are.
3. bats dont suck the blood of people and animals either. bats will bite an animal or lick the blood like ice cream. but you know that one bat can eat up to 1,000 insects in about one hour.
4. without bats, the world would have numerous mosquitoes. without bats, we would have many biting insects and bugs crawling around.

part a what is the main idea of paragraph 1?
a bats cant see well.
b bats eat bugs and insects.
c bats are creatures of the night.
part b which detail supports your main idea selected in part a?
a but you know that one bat can eat up to 1,000 insects in about one hour.
b bats dont have the best eyesight, so they use echolocation when they fly.
c bats dont suck the blood of people and animals either.
what would happen if we didnt have bats? use evidence from the text.

Explanation:

Part A: The text mainly discusses bats' ability to eat bugs and insects at night, so the main idea is that bats eat bugs and insects.
Part B: The detail "One bat can eat up to 1,000 insects in one hour" supports the idea in Part A about bats' insect - eating ability.
For the last question, without bats, there would be numerous mosquitoes as bats eat a large number of insects including mosquitoes.

Answer:

Part A: B. Bats eat bugs and insects.
Part B: "One bat can eat up to 1,000 insects in one hour."
Last question: There would be numerous mosquitoes.