ESL 2 Chapter 2

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. An enclosed armored military vehicle (4)
  2. 6. Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic (6)
  3. 7. Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair (plural) (7)
  4. 8. Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings (9)
  5. 10. Dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (3)
  6. 11. The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs (plural) (8)
  7. 12. A difficult problem (6)
  8. 13. Small air-breathing arthropod (plural) (7)
  9. 16. Frozen water (3)

Down

  1. 2. Living things like dogs and birds (7)
  2. 3. White ___ of Arctic regions (9)
  3. 4. Short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches (7)
  4. 5. What we eat to get energy and grow (4)
  5. 9. The light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds (plural) (8)
  6. 14. A former gold coin in the United States worth 10 dollars (5)
  7. 15. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (5)