Ecosystem

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Furry pet that purrs and chases mice (3)
  2. 5. The natural world around us (11)
  3. 9. Any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter (6)
  4. 10. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  5. 11. What we eat to get energy and grow (4)
  6. 13. Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings (9)
  7. 14. Alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail (3)

Down

  1. 1. Eight-legged creature that spins webs (6)
  2. 2. A burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants (7)
  3. 4. Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful (8)
  4. 6. A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment (9)
  5. 7. Mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs (7)
  6. 8. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species (3)
  7. 11. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (4)
  8. 12. Tall plant with a trunk and branches (4)
  9. 13. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (4)