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Maine harvests over 100 MILLION pounds of this tasty crustacean.
What is a lobster?
This common biome has many trees and is broken down into temperate ___, tropical ___, and boreal ___.
What is a forest?
This category of animal eats exclusively meat and/or fish.
What is a carnivore?
These animals are defined as having a backbone.
What are vertebrates?
These insects blend in by imitating a stick.
What are stickbugs? (Phasmatodea)
The southern coast of Maine is dotted with this sandy biome
What is a beach?
Sharks, Squids, Whales and Crabs all call this place their home.
What is the ocean?
This word describes animals that do not hunt, but instead eat already dead animals.
What is a scavenger?
This category includes animals that are cold-blooded, lay eggs and have scales.
What are reptiles?
This insect undergoes metamorphosis, in which it wraps itself into a cocoon and emerges as a completely different bug.
What is a caterpillar/butterfly?
What is a moth?
This fascinating Maine animal builds large wooden structures on rivers!
What is a beaver?
Scorpions, Snakes, Camels and Iguanas all call this biome their home.
What is a Desert?
This deep sea fish uses a glow-in-the-dark lure on it's head to attract prey before going in for the kill.
What is an Anglerfish?
Tigers, Whales, Bears, Hippos and even Humans are all in this category.
What is a mammal?
These bugs live in underground colonies that can house up to millions depending on the species.
What are ants?
Sebago, Moosehead, Rangeley, and Millinocket are all names for this common Maine biome
What is a lake?
Mining, deforestation, and climate change has destroyed well over half of this unique South American biome.
What is the tropical rainforest?
This fish uses electricity to stun and eat their prey.
What is an electric eel?
This category includes animals that are typically born in water, then move to land when they get older.
What are amphibians?
These pests have been known to carry malaria, west nile virus, dengue fever, zika virus, yellow fever and chikungunya.
What are mosquitos?
This carnivorous land mammal weighs only 20 pounds on average (little larger than a house cat) and is known best for its cute tufts of black fur on their ears.
What is the Canadian Lynx?
This biome is in South America, Africa and Australia and is best known for having few trees and long stretches of tall brown grass. Elephants, giraffes, and Ibexes call this place home.
What is the Savanna?
This arachnid digs holes in the ground and uses a cork-like piece of dirt to cover the top. This method allows them to hide and attack prey suddenly when they walk over the cork.
What is the Trapdoor Spider? (Ctenizidae)
This category of animal eats BOTH meat and plants.
What is an omnivore?
These simply named insects use the surface tension of water to glide across lakes and ponds.
What are water striders? (Gerridae)