Nature

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Playful animal that swings through trees (6)
  2. 6. Flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States (7)
  3. 7. A former gold coin in the United States worth 10 dollars (5)
  4. 9. Tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills (11)
  5. 12. Leather made from ___'s hide (9)
  6. 13. Largest anthropoid ape (7)
  7. 14. Flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes (5)

Down

  1. 1. Large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail (5)
  2. 2. Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings (9)
  3. 3. Toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long (8)
  4. 5. A kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail (8)
  5. 8. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking (5)
  6. 9. An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria (5)
  7. 10. Diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight (6)
  8. 11. Intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests (5)