Penguins
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the letter of the matching definition next to each term.
1. brood
A. Animal hunted or caught for food
2. king
B. Widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body
3. predators
C. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm
4. prey
D. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective
5. colony
E. Someone who attacks in search of booty (plural)
6. crested
F. A shoe for swimming (plural)
7. krill
G. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills
8. seal
H. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
9. macaroni
I. The light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds (plural)
10. penguins
J. Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet (plural)
11. squid
K. A body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland
12. fish
L. Male ruler of a kingdom
13. shark
M. The color of coal
14. feathers
N. Riding on a long light sled with low handrails
15. flippers
O. Pasta in the form of slender tubes
16. black
P. Shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans
17. white
Q. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough
18. swim
R. To move through water
19. egg
S. The young of an animal cared for at one time
20. bird
T. To lie at the top of
21. tobogganing
U. The color of snow