Abby has had a lot of fun this week learning about all sorts of sea life. Since she found the crabs on Cape Hatteras she's really enjoyed finding out more about oceanography and marine life. She has also enjoyed mini golf at pirate cove, lunch at hard rock cafe; Underwater 3D adventure at Imax theater; trip to Aquarium, learned about swordfish, sharks, prehistoric creatures.
Some of the things she's learned are:
Crabs - There are lots of different kinds of crabs (beach crabs, hermits crabs, spider crabs, land crabs, over 45,000 types), each have 8 legs plus 2 claws and water crabs have gills so it can breathe underwater. Baby crabs are call zoeas and are only as big as a flea, then they turn into a megalops which have large eyes, then finally finally into an adult crab. Crabs molt about 27 times in their life when they outgrow their shell.
The biggest crab is the Japanese Spider Crab which has 8 legs as big as a man and 2 feeding claws, lives in the Pacific Ocean over by Japan, and are omnivores so they eat both fish and plants
Some vocabulary words: carnivore, herbavore, omnivore, invertibrate and vertibrate animals
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