Chesapeake Bay Journal

1. A crab's exoskeleton is largely made of:
Bone
Chiton
Cartilage
Crustean

2. A sexually mature female crab is called a:
She-crab
Crabbess
Sook
Clawdine

3. The carapace is the crab's:
Inner shell
Top shell
Bottom shell
Front claw

4. Which is true about the fingers on the blue crab's hand:
Males are blue, females blue
Males are red, females red
Males are red, females blue
Males are blue, females red

5. The blue crab's scientific name, Callinectes sapidus, means:
Beautiful swimmer
Athletic claw
Blue crawler
Agile legs

6. A scientist who studies crabs is called a:
Crabbologist
Crustologist
Callinectologist
Carcinologist

7. Newly hatched crabs are called:
Swimmerets
Crablets
Larvines
Zoeas

8. A sponge crab is a crab:
That has just molted
With a soft shell
That has just scraped the mud off its shell
Carrying a load of eggs

9. A favored habitat of the blue crab is:
Eelgrass beds
Freshwater marshes
Rocky bottoms
Sandy shorelines

10. The period between a crab's molts is called:
Scrape
Punk
Instar
Megalops

Correct answers: 1. Chiton 2. Sook 3. Top shell 4. Males are blue, females red 5. Beautiful swimmer 6. Crustologist 7. Zoeas 8. Carrying a load of eggs 9. Eelgrass beds 10. Instar