Rainforest Words

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Small air-breathing arthropod (6)
  2. 7. A ___ with heavy annual ___ (10)
  3. 9. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants (4)
  4. 11. Very warm (3)
  5. 12. Living thing that grows in soil and makes its own food (5)
  6. 13. Animal hunted or caught for food (4)
  7. 14. Arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe (8)

Down

  1. 2. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (6)
  2. 3. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (4)
  3. 4. Large ___ of southeastern Asia and the East Indies (9)
  4. 5. Large area covered with trees (6)
  5. 6. Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants (9)
  6. 8. A distinctive odor that is pleasant (5)
  7. 10. The transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit (6)
  8. 15. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)