Insects

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms (6)
  2. 5. Coins collectively (plural) (7)
  3. 9. Edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous (9)
  4. 10. That which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions (4)
  5. 11. Any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed (6)

Down

  1. 1. The part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock (4)
  2. 2. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected (8)
  3. 4. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis (7)
  4. 6. Living things like trees and flowers that grow in soil (6)
  5. 7. Small air-breathing arthropod (plural) (7)
  6. 8. Whether it's rainy, sunny or windy outside (7)