What Makes a Fish a Fish?
Fish ID
Macroinvertebrate ID
Misc
100

The scientific term for an animal that assumes the temperature of their environment.

What is an Ectotherm?

100

An important coldwater fish in PA.

Trout or Dace

100

Aquatic arthropods which live under rocks in cool streams and eat small fish.

What is a Crayfish?

200

The largest PA watershed

What is the Susquehanna Watershed?

200

These are two examples of warm water fish.

Largemouth Bass, Bluegill, Redbreast Sunfish, Rock Bass, Brown Bullhead, Channel Catfish

200

These invertebrates have three tails.

What is a Mayfly?

200

The number of miles of streams and rivers in PA.

There are 83,000 of what in PA?

300

The fin on the tail of the fish.

What is a caudal fin?

300

Often found in shallow lakes or ponds, with spiny dorsal fins.

What is a Bluegill?

300

The larval, aquatic stage of a Dobson fly.

What is a hellgrammite?

400

The fins on the top, or "back", of the fish.

Dorsal

400

What are bivalves?

Snails.

400

These look similar to dragon flies

What is a Damsel fly?

500

The scientific classification of fishes.

What is Osteicthyes?

500

A common predator of the bluegill

What is the Largemouth Bass.

500

Multi or unicelled aquatic organisms

Phytoplankton