Blue Crab Quiz
Answer the questions below. Once you've selected all the right answers, the picture will be complete.
1.
The blue crab's latin name
Callinectes sapidus
means...
crab with blue legs
beautiful swimmer
clawed predator
2.
The average life span of a blue crab is...
6 months
1 year
3 years
3.
The blue crab, like other crabs, has how many pairs of legs?
3 pairs
5 pairs
7 pairs
4.
The abdomen on a male blue crab is shaped like the letter...
Y
U
T
5.
Of the millions of eggs a female blue crab produces, approximately how many will survive to adulthood?
2
10
100
6.
The annual harvest of hard blue crabs from the Chesapeake Bay accounts for approximately how much of the U.S. total?
20%
50%
100%
photo by Mary Hollinger/NOAA
Nanticoke Watershed Alliance
