Rainforest Adventure

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Big cat with orange and black stripes (5)
  2. 4. General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate (plural) (4)
  3. 7. Burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger (6)
  4. 9. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (plural) (5)
  5. 10. Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings (9)
  6. 12. Long stream of water flowing to the sea (5)
  7. 13. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  8. 14. Big cat known as king of the jungle (4)

Down

  1. 1. Large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body (9)
  2. 3. Large American feline resembling a lion (4)
  3. 5. Playful animal that swings through trees (6)
  4. 6. Small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail (8)
  5. 8. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (6)
  6. 11. Wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia (5)