All Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (plural) (5)
  2. 7. Large white-furred mammals native to the Arctic. (10)
  3. 10. Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet (plural) (8)
  4. 11. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (plural) (6)
  5. 12. Long legless reptile that slithers (plural) (6)
  6. 15. Voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having (3)
  7. 16. Large furry animal that hibernates in winter (plural) (5)

Down

  1. 1. Furry pet that purrs and chases mice (plural) (4)
  2. 2. Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles (7)
  3. 4. Long-eared animal that hops (plural) (7)
  4. 5. Large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles (9)
  5. 6. Short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches (plural) (8)
  6. 8. Climbing vine native to China (4)
  7. 9. Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws (7)
  8. 13. A former gold coin in the United States worth 10 dollars (5)
  9. 14. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers (4)