EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Animals like owls and badgers, which are active during the night, are said to be nocturnal.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nocturnal animals are animals that are active during the night and sleep during the day. Animals that are active during the day and sleep at night, are known as diurnal-the opposite of nocturnal. Nocturnal animals tend to have heightened senses due to their activity in the dark.

Detailed explanation-3: -The correct option is C nocturnals. Nocturnals are animals that hunt at night. For example bats, cockroaches, etc.

Detailed explanation-4: -Humans and many animals are what is called diurnal. Diurnal creatures wake and sleep with the rising and the setting of the sun. In Iowa, those animals include squirrels, chipmunks and ground squirrels, raptors such as bald eagles, hawks and osprey, turtles and most species of songbirds and waterfowl.