Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Tallest living quadruped (7)
  2. 8. A small amount of liquid food (7)
  3. 10. Terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping (11)
  4. 11. Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings (9)
  5. 13. Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail (6)
  6. 14. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (5)
  7. 15. Playful animal that swings through trees (6)
  8. 16. Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet (7)

Down

  1. 1. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (6)
  2. 2. Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest (9)
  3. 4. Stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult (4)
  4. 5. Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans (8)
  5. 6. Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (7)
  6. 7. Large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body (9)
  7. 9. Cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions (5)
  8. 12. Long-eared animal that hops (6)