Animals and Pets

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Eight-legged creature that spins webs (6)
  2. 7. Attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness (4)
  3. 9. Living thing that grows in soil and makes its own food (5)
  4. 10. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (6)
  5. 11. A person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks (8)
  6. 13. Furry pet that barks and wags its tail (3)
  7. 14. Long-eared animal that hops (6)

Down

  1. 1. What we eat to get energy and grow (4)
  2. 2. Animal flesh eaten as food (4)
  3. 4. Small air-breathing arthropod (6)
  4. 5. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  5. 6. A domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement (3)
  6. 7. Furry pet that purrs and chases mice (3)
  7. 8. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (4)
  8. 12. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement (6)
  9. 15. General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate (3)