Rainforest

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Living thing that grows in soil and makes its own food (5)
  2. 6. Brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled (6)
  3. 7. Gas in the air that we need to breathe (6)
  4. 8. A ___ with heavy annual ___ (10)
  5. 9. Toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long (8)
  6. 11. Any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America (5)

Down

  1. 1. Very warm (3)
  2. 2. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard (6)
  3. 3. Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic (6)
  4. 5. Relating to the hot regions near the equator. (8)
  5. 10. Tall plants with trunks and leaves (5)