1.

How old is the horseshoe crab species?

350 million years

2.

Where do most horseshoe crabs live?

Ocean floor only leave the water to spawn

3.

What are their predators?

Humans
4.

What are their closest relatives?

Spiders and scorpions

5.

How many eyes do they have?

10 eyes

6.

What color is their blood?

blue

7.

Why is horseshoe blood blue?

Blood contains copper intead of iron

8.

How does the blue blood help the horseshoe crab fight disease?

Clotting agent detects bacteria and proteins attack the diseases, primitive antibiotics
9.

How has this evolutionary adaptation proven useful to human medicine?

Lisate no iv drug reaches the market without being checked with horeshoe crab blood
Shoochers to contact lenses

10.

How much is a quart of horseshoe crab blood worth?

15000 dollars
11.

How has the practice of horseshoe crab harvesting changed as a result of the medical value
of the blood?

12.

What human activities have caused the horseshoe crab population to decline?
Horseshoe crab harvesting was done to use them as bait.

13.

If the horseshoe crab population declines further, what will happen to the red knot, and why?
Red knot will decline as well, horsecrab eggs are esstianl fuel for red knots to survive

14.

How have humans taken action to prevent the horseshoe crab from becoming extinct?

2 year moratorium on harvesting horseshoe crab in place

15.

Be able to discuss the film using what you learned in the chapters, using terms and specific
examples from the video and the text.