Say Wat Vertebrates

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A British imperial capacity unit equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters (plural) (5)
  2. 8. The hard structure that provides a frame for the body of an animal (8)
  3. 10. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (4)
  4. 11. Massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin (10)

Down

  1. 1. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)
  2. 3. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  3. 4. The responsive adjustment of a sense organ to varying conditions (10)
  4. 5. A cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump (4)
  5. 6. Any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class ___ including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards (7)
  6. 7. Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair (plural) (7)
  7. 8. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (5)
  8. 9. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (4)
  9. 12. The yield from plants in a single growing season (4)