Can you find the Living Things?

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (4)
  2. 4. Long-eared animal that hops (6)
  3. 5. Big cat known as king of the jungle (4)
  4. 7. Any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow (9)
  5. 9. Any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers (4)
  6. 13. Tall plant with a trunk and branches (4)
  7. 15. Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying (6)

Down

  1. 1. Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings (9)
  2. 2. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (5)
  3. 3. Big cat with orange and black stripes (5)
  4. 6. Furry pet that barks and wags its tail (3)
  5. 8. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  6. 10. A very large person (5)
  7. 11. Furry pet that purrs and chases mice (3)
  8. 12. Striped African relative of the horse (5)
  9. 14. Any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear ___ (4)