Marsupials and Monotremes

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s (6)
  2. 6. To travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc (7)
  3. 10. An Australian state on the island of ___ (8)
  4. 11. Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants (plural) (10)
  5. 13. The state of being pregnant (9)
  6. 14. Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful (8)

Down

  1. 1. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat (5)
  2. 2. Mammals of which the females have a pouch containing the teats where the young are fed and carried (9)
  3. 3. The most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria (9)
  4. 5. A burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants (7)
  5. 7. Saclike structure in any of various animals (5)
  6. 8. Country and continent known for kangaroos (9)
  7. 9. Any of various agile ratlike terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands (9)
  8. 12. Small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail (8)