Protein Puzzle
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the letter of the matching definition next to each term.
1. almonds
A. Dairy food made from milk
2. beef
B. Any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
3. cheese
C. A relatively small granular particle of a substance (plural)
4. chicken
D. Seed of a pea plant used for food (plural)
5. clams
E. Any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters
6. lobster
F. Small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers
7. lunch
G. Highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings
8. cottage
H. To take the midday meal
9. navy
I. Meat from a domestic hog or pig
10. peanut
J. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud (plural)
11. eggs
K. The ___ of the United States of America
12. shrimp
L. Small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly (plural)
13. peas
M. Either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes from the blood and excrete them
14. grains
N. A small house with a single story
15. pork
O. Widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions
16. kidney
P. Cattle that are reared for their meat
17. soybeans
Q. Erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers (plural)
18. salmon
R. Farm bird that lays eggs
19. lentils
S. Round flat seed of the ___ plant used for food (plural)
20. sausage
T. Oval foods laid by hens