Cougar Facts

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a ___ language and who ranged (5)
  2. 5. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers (4)
  3. 6. A continent in the western hemisphere connected to South ___ by the Isthmus of Panama (12)
  4. 7. Large American feline resembling a lion (6)
  5. 10. Relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur (9)
  6. 11. Animal hunted or caught for food (4)
  7. 12. A light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards (4)
  8. 13. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard (7)

Down

  1. 1. A terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal (9)
  2. 2. The first light of day (6)
  3. 3. Large American feline resembling a lion (4)
  4. 7. Sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles (plural) (5)
  5. 8. A structure consisting of an area that has been ___ for some purpose (9)
  6. 9. The sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture (7)
  7. 10. Any animal that lives by preying on other animals (8)