Types of Animals,Pets, and, More

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria (5)
  2. 7. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (plural) (5)
  3. 8. Large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body (plural) (10)
  4. 10. Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic (plural) (7)
  5. 13. Furry pet that barks and wags its tail (plural) (4)
  6. 14. Small air-breathing arthropod (plural) (7)
  7. 16. Small rodent that squeaks, or a computer pointer (5)

Down

  1. 1. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (plural) (6)
  2. 3. Tallest living quadruped (7)
  3. 4. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers (4)
  4. 5. Female of domestic cattle: "`moo-cow' is a child's term" (plural) (4)
  5. 6. Huge gray animal with a trunk (plural) (9)
  6. 9. Eight-legged creature that spins webs (plural) (7)
  7. 11. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (6)
  8. 12. Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral (5)
  9. 15. Furry pet that purrs and chases mice (plural) (4)