Kansas Connection

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (6)
  2. 5. The lowest part of the musical range (4)
  3. 6. Cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water (plural) (10)
  4. 8. Beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur (7)
  5. 9. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)
  6. 11. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (plural) (5)

Down

  1. 1. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (4)
  2. 2. Any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class ___ including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards (plural) (8)
  3. 3. Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans (8)
  4. 4. Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair (plural) (7)
  5. 7. Sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws (6)
  6. 10. Diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail (4)