Animals that live in the water

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles (7)
  2. 5. Important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States (8)
  3. 7. Any of various large ___ with limbs modified into flippers (plural) (10)
  4. 8. Either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber (6)
  5. 9. Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (plural) (8)
  6. 12. Small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers (6)
  7. 14. Flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes (5)
  8. 15. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (plural) (6)

Down

  1. 1. Shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans (5)
  2. 2. Large white-furred mammals native to the Arctic. (10)
  3. 4. Widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body (5)
  4. 5. The lowest part of the musical range (4)
  5. 6. Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet (plural) (8)
  6. 10. Any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae (plural) (8)
  7. 11. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded (plural) (5)
  8. 13. Any of numerous fishes of America and Europe (5)