Animals and Pets
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
1.
s
A domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement (plural)
3.
t
Any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America
4.
a
a
Living things like dogs and birds
5.
r
Big cat with orange and black stripes
6.
k
Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat
8.
e
r
Short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches
10.
y
Breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog
11.
d
Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
12.
n
y
Playful animal that swings through trees
13.
a
g
Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful
14.
p
o
a
A large white-furred mammal native to the Arctic.
16.
l
a
Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail
19.
r
Large furry animal that hibernates in winter
20.
e
Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
21.
e
e
Toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long