The scientific term for an animal that assumes the temperature of their environment.
What is an Ectotherm?
An important coldwater fish in PA.
Trout or Dace
Aquatic arthropods which live under rocks in cool streams and eat small fish.
What is a Crayfish?
The largest PA watershed
What is the Susquehanna Watershed?
These are two examples of warm water fish.
Largemouth Bass, Bluegill, Redbreast Sunfish, Rock Bass, Brown Bullhead, Channel Catfish
These invertebrates have three tails.
What is a Mayfly?
The number of miles of streams and rivers in PA.
There are 83,000 of what in PA?
The fin on the tail of the fish.
What is a caudal fin?
Often found in shallow lakes or ponds, with spiny dorsal fins.
What is a Bluegill?
The larval, aquatic stage of a Dobson fly.
What is a hellgrammite?
The fins on the top, or "back", of the fish.
Dorsal
What are bivalves?
Snails.
These look similar to dragon flies
What is a Damsel fly?
The scientific classification of fishes.
What is Osteicthyes?
A common predator of the bluegill
What is the Largemouth Bass.
Multi or unicelled aquatic organisms
Phytoplankton