Vocabulary
What is a hard outer covering that protects the body?
What is a exoskeleton?
How long can crayfish live in the wild?
What is 2-3 years?
These two jointed structures in front of the crayfish are used to catch food and to protect themselves.
What is pincers?
Crayfish are scientiffically related to crabs,shrimp,and lobsters which all belong to this jointlegged group.
What is crustaceans?
The natural environment or place where an animal lives or finds food.
What is habitat?
What is an animal that eats both plants and animals?
What is an omnivore?
How do crayfish "feel" whats around them?
What is crayfish use their antennae to "feel" around?
a Crayfish has two sets of these structures on its head used for feeling and tasting.
What is antennae?
This popular nickname for crayfish is formed by combining "craw" with a word meaning father.
What is crawdad?
Because they are aqutic, crayfish primarily breathe using these organs located under their shell.
What are gills?
What is an animal that hunts and eats other animals?
What is a predator?
There are how many species if crayfish?
What is more than 600 species of crayfish around the world?
These small, leg-like structures are located under the tail and help crayfish swim and carry eggs.
What is swimmerets?
This common nickname for a crayfish sneaks the word fish onto the end.
What is crawfish?
Crayfish use rocks as part of their habitat primarily for this survival purpose against predators.
What is shelter?
What is to shed an old shell or skin so a new one can grow?
What is to molt?
Some crayfish can do this to camouflage themselves.
What is change color?
Because their hard outer shell cannot grow crayfish must periodically shed it in this process.
What is molting?
Another casual nickname for a crayfish that replaces the 'fish' with 'daddy".
What is crawdaddy?
If you are looking for a crayfish in the wild, you will most likely find them at the bottom of these types of bodies of water.
What is freshwater streams, lakes, or ponds?
What is the natural home or environment where an animal lives?
What is habitat?
Crayfish use these to grab food and defend themselves.
What is pincers?
Like a grasshopper a crayfish's body is split into two main sections: the abdomen and this fused head and chest region.
What is cephalothorax?
While they look like lobsters, freshwater species found speciffically in Austrailia are more commonly known by this name?
What is a yabby or a marron?
Some crayfish sconstruct these structures which look like minature mud chimneys, to survive dry periods.
What are burrows?