Requirements
- 1.
Why are bats classified as mammals and not birds?
- 2.
What is the main characteristic that separates bats from all other mammals?
- 3.
What is the name of the order that bats belong to and what does it mean?
- 4.
What are the largest and smallest bats and where do they live?
- 5.
How many different types of bats are there worldwide?
- 6.
Bats are divided into 2 suborders. What are their names?
- 7.
Which suborder of bats uses echolocation and which suborder use eyesight to find their food?
- 8.
What is the diet of the Megabats?
- 9.
What is the diet of the Microbats
- 10.
How many babies does a bat have each year and what are the babies called?
- 11.
Find three Bible texts that mentions bats. Which text uses bats in an end time prophecy?
- 12.
Do bats hibernate or migrate for the winter?
- 13.
Name the parts of a bat.
- 14.
How many insects can a microbat eat in an hour?
- 15.
What are the 2 main benefits bats provide for man?
- 16.
Build or purchase a bat box, know the best place to put it and install it at a home, church, or your school. Record for 3 months what kind and how many bats have made it their home. Approved 2/2004
Advanced requirements
Completed after the requirements above, for the advanced version of this honor.
- 1.
Earn the bat honor.
- 2.
What are caves, attics, bridges, or tunnels where bats hibernate called?
- 3.
Give 3 examples of colonizing bats.
- 4.
Give 3 examples of solitary roosting bats.
- 5.
What is meant by delayed implantation?
- 6.
How long is the gestation period for bats?
- 7.
What is bat guano and why was it important during the war of 1812 and the Civil War?
- 8.
What disease can be contracted from large quantities of guano?
- 9.
What is the life-span of a bat?
- 10.
Do all bats have rabies?
- 11.
How good is the vision of microbats and megabats?
- 12.
What North American bat is pictured on the honor? Approved 2/2004
About this honor
- Category
- Nature
- Skill level
- 1
- Division
- North American Division
- Edition
- 2001
Requirements are published by AdventSource for the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Advent Clubs reproduces them here for club leaders and links the original document above.