Fun with Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (6)
  2. 4. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (plural) (5)
  3. 8. Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful (8)
  4. 9. Small rodent that squeaks, or a computer pointer (5)
  5. 12. Short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches (7)
  6. 13. Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail (6)

Down

  1. 1. Burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger (6)
  2. 3. A burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants (7)
  3. 5. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  4. 6. Echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk (8)
  5. 7. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism (3)
  6. 10. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (5)
  7. 11. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (plural) (5)