Science- Animal Kingdom

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. The production of young from an egg (5)
  2. 4. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  3. 5. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement (6)
  4. 6. Any animal that lives by preying on other animals (8)
  5. 9. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)
  6. 11. The light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds (plural) (8)
  7. 12. Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic (6)
  8. 15. Animal you can ride that gallops (5)

Down

  1. 1. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (5)
  2. 3. Black birds having a raucous call (4)
  3. 4. Study of the natural world through experiments (7)
  4. 7. Any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class ___ including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards (plural) (8)
  5. 8. Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair (plural) (7)
  6. 10. The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs (7)
  7. 13. Gas in the air that we need to breathe (6)
  8. 14. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (4)