Living Things
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
1.
p
i
e
Eight-legged creature that spins webs
4.
p
s
Social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by (plural)
5.
a
s
Social insect living in organized colonies (plural)
6.
g
i
a
Largest anthropoid ape
7.
z
e
Striped African relative of the horse
8.
o
n
y
Playful animal that swings through trees
9.
e
p
h
n
Huge gray animal with a trunk
10.
r
s
Any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida (plural)
11.
a
e
Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots
12.
f
h
Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills
13.
s
k
s
Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (plural)
14.
c
a
Furry pet that purrs and chases mice (plural)
15.
o
s
Furry pet that barks and wags its tail (plural)
16.
i
n
s
Small air-breathing arthropod (plural)
18.
a
r
o
Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic
20.
l
e
Any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap (plural)
22.
m
i
c
o
g
n
Any organism of ___ size