Marsupials
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the letter of the matching definition next to each term.
1. marsupial
A. Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair
2. pouch
B. The period during which an embryo develops
3. protect
C. To provide with ___ or add nutrients to
4. mammal
D. Burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger
5. newborn
E. Coins collectively (plural)
6. gestation
F. Any of various agile ratlike terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands
7. fertilize
G. To be an ___ of or reside in
8. inhabit
H. Saclike structure in any of various animals
9. species
I. To shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage
10. kangaroos
J. Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful (plural)
11. bandicoot
K. A baby from birth to four weeks
12. wombat
L. Mammals of which the females have a pouch containing the teats where the young are fed and carried