Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Animal you can ride that gallops (5)
  2. 6. Female of domestic cattle: "`moo-___' is a child's term" (3)
  3. 7. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (4)
  4. 9. Musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States (6)
  5. 10. Any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole (5)
  6. 11. Short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches (7)
  7. 13. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (4)

Down

  1. 1. Furry pet that barks and wags its tail (3)
  2. 3. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  3. 4. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)
  4. 5. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (6)
  5. 6. Furry pet that purrs and chases mice (3)
  6. 8. Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (7)
  7. 12. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (5)