Desert

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Dry land with very little rain (6)
  2. 5. Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful (8)
  3. 7. A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems (plural) (6)
  4. 8. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent (3)
  5. 10. A person who is born while the sun is in ___ (8)
  6. 11. A terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal (plural) (10)
  7. 12. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)

Down

  1. 1. Having little or no moisture. (3)
  2. 2. Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants (plural) (10)
  3. 4. A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment (9)
  4. 6. Wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia (5)
  5. 9. Very warm (3)