Life In the Mountains

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. The fur of the North American racoon (7)
  2. 8. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male (3)
  3. 9. Relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur (9)
  4. 10. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (4)
  5. 11. Long-eared animal that hops (6)
  6. 13. Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt (4)

Down

  1. 1. Quacking water bird (4)
  2. 2. A person who is born while the sun is in ___ (8)
  3. 3. Diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail (4)
  4. 4. A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible (5)
  5. 6. A kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail (8)
  6. 7. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers (4)
  7. 12. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (4)