City Habitat Animals
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
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A kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail
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The fur of the North American racoon
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Black birds having a raucous call (plural)
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Long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds
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Wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs
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General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate (plural)
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Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans (plural)
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Burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates
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Eight-legged creature that spins webs (plural)
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A game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players
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Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil
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Terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
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Small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails
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A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
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A forest fire fighter who is sent to battle remote and severe forest fires
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Long-eared animal that hops
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Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical (plural)
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Social insect living in organized colonies (plural)
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Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
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Quacking water bird (plural)