Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.

1.
t
Big cat with orange and black stripes
2.
b u t
Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
3.
p o a
White ___ of Arctic regions
4.
p u
Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet
5.
f
Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping
6.
d l
Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas
7.
g i
Tallest living quadruped
8.
l s
9.
m y
Playful animal that swings through trees
10.
s i
A person who is born while the sun is in ___
11.
s
Long legless reptile that slithers
12.
p
Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet
13.
r t
Long-eared animal that hops
14.
c r r
A wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth
15.
m
Small rodent that squeaks, or a computer pointer
16.
c
Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded
17.
d
Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
18.
b
Large furry animal that hibernates in winter
19.
b
Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
20.
z
Striped African relative of the horse