Endangered Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws (7)
  2. 3. The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs (7)
  3. 4. Largest mammal ever known (9)
  4. 9. The maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical (12)
  5. 10. To pursue for food or sport (6)
  6. 11. Big cat with orange and black stripes (5)
  7. 12. A large white-furred mammal native to the Arctic. (9)

Down

  1. 2. The natural world around us (11)
  2. 5. At risk of becoming extinct. (10)
  3. 6. To shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage (7)
  4. 7. Someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another (plural) (8)
  5. 8. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet (10)