Amazing Animal Senses

Some insects use their ____________ to taste.

• feet

• tongue

• ears

• wings

What sense are you using when petting your dog?

• Eyes

• Ears

• Touch

• Taste

Senses can help guide animals to where they want to go. What do we call this?

• echolocation

• Migration

• Navigation

What amazing sense do sharks have that helps them survive? Explain with an O.R.E.O.

Bats use echolocation to find their way. Which of the senses do they use for this?

• sight

• sound

• taste

• touch

What is echolocation?

• The location of objects by reflected sight.

• The location of objects by reflected touch.

• The location of objects by reflected smell.

• The location of objects by reflected sound.

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In the reading, Animal Senses, what are the two animals that are mystries that scientists cannot quite expalin about animal senses.

• bat and elephant

• elephant and shark

• elephant and monarch butterfly

• monarch butterfly and bat

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What is is called when animals are awake at night and can see in the dark or have night vision?

• navigate

• nocturnal

• migrate

• night vision

African elephants have 2000 powerful sensors in its trunk/sniffer compared to meager around 1000 sensors found in dogs while humans only 400 receptors. Hence they have the best sense of __________ in the whole animal kingdom.

• Taste

• Vision

• Touch

• Smell

Bats have the best ability to locate / navigate even during nights by using sense of

• smell

• taste

• sound

• vision