2. Where in the World? By the Numbers HSC Parts Smarts Horseshoe Uses HSC Hodge Podge 100 200 300 400 500 International Horseshoe Crab Jeopardy!

3. Where in the World … are horseshoe crabs called ‘kabutogani’? Answer:

4. Back to game board Back to game board What is Japan?

5. Where in the World … are the southernmost populations of the American horseshoe crab found? Answer:

6. Back to game board Back to game board What is Yucatan/Mexico?

7. Where in the World … are the eggs of HSCs considered a dining delicacy? Answer:

8. Back to Game Board Back to Game Board What is Malaysia, Thailand and/or Vietnam?

9. Where in the World … do you need to go to see the largest masses of spawning HSCs on the planet? Answer:

10. Back to Game Board Back to Game Board What is Delaware Bay, USA?

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12. Where in the World … are HSCs raised by high school students for release into the wild to help rebuild populations? Answer:

13. Back to game board Back to game board What is Hong Kong or Taiwan?

14. number of species of HSCs that exist today Answer:

15. Return to Game Board Return to Game Board What is 4?

16. number of long spines on femaleTachypleus tridentatus Answer:

17. Return to Game Board Return to Game Board What is 3?

18. number of pairs of legs on a horseshoe crab Answer:

19. Return to Game Board Return to Game Board What is 5?

20. millions of years HSCs have been living on Earth Answer:

21. Return to Game Board Return to Game Board What is 445 (or 450)?

22. years it takes an American HSC to reach adulthood Answer:

23. Return to Game Board Return to Game Board What is 8-10?

24. Nobel Prizes were awarded for research carried out on this part of the HSC anatomy Answer:

25. Return to Game Board Return to Game Board What are the compound eyes (or lateral eyes)?

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27. structures horseshoe crabs use for respiration Answer:

28. Return to Game Board Return to Game Board What are the book gills?

29. scientific term for front section of HSC body Answer:

30. Return to Game Board Return to Game Board What is the prosoma?

31. name used for the specially-modified hind legs of the HSC Answer:

32. Return to Game Board Return to Game Board What are the pusher legs?

33. during spawning, eggs (in females) and sperm (in males) are released from the underside of this HSC structure Answer:

34. Return to Game Board Return to Game Board What is the operculum?

35. much-valued biomedical product from HSC blood Answer:

36. Back to game board Back to game board What is LAL (or TAL)?

37. HSC eggs on Delaware Bay provide a key resource in supporting the migration of _________. Answer:

38. Back to game board Back to game board What are shorebirds (or red knots)?

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40. LAL makes human medicines safe to use by ensuring that they are not contaminated with _______. Answer:

41. Back to game board Back to game board What are bacterial endotoxins?

42. from the mid 1800’s to 1900’s, millions of HSCs were harvested on Delaware Bay for use as ________. Answer:

43. Back to Game Board Back to Game Board What is fertilizer?

44. In the U.S. today, large numbers of HSCs are used by commercial fisherman as __________. Answer:

45. Return to Game Board Return to Game Board What is bait? (200 bonus points for denoting use in eel & whelk fisheries)

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47. the blood of the HSC appears blue because it contains _______. Answer:

48. Return to Game Board Return to Game Board What is copper?

49. process by which HSCs grow in stages Answer:

50. Return to Game Board Return to Game Board What is molting?

51. people have died from using HSCs in this way Answer:

52. Return to Game Board Return to Game Board What is eating them? (or eating the eggs) 100 bonus points if specify the eggs of Carcinoscorpius)

53. phylum of animals to which HSCs belong Answer:

54. Return to Game Board Return to Game Board What is Arthropoda? (or arthropod)

55. highly diverse, long extinct, group of animals that came before HSCs and resembled them in many ways Answer:

56. Return to Game Board Return to Game Board What is