Animals That Live Underground

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil (plural) (10)
  2. 6. Aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver (6)
  3. 9. Any of various agile ratlike terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands (9)
  4. 12. A burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia (8)
  5. 13. A mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes (7)
  6. 14. Small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping (6)
  7. 16. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet (4)

Down

  1. 1. Small mouselike mammal with a long snout (5)
  2. 2. Short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches (7)
  3. 3. Burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates (9)
  4. 5. Reddish brown North American marmot (9)
  5. 7. Social insect living in organized colonies (plural) (4)
  6. 8. Nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites (8)
  7. 10. The ___ weight of a substance expressed in grams (4)
  8. 11. Long-eared animal that hops (6)
  9. 15. Bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit (5)