Swamp

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Living things like dogs and birds (7)
  2. 4. Eight-legged creature that spins webs (plural) (7)
  3. 7. Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings (plural) (11)
  4. 10. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)
  5. 11. Long legless reptile that slithers (plural) (6)
  6. 13. Tall plants with trunks and leaves (5)
  7. 14. To produce tones with the voice (plural) (5)
  8. 16. Any plant that crowds out cultivated plants (plural) (5)

Down

  1. 1. All living things that are undomesticated (8)
  2. 3. The essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized (6)
  3. 5. Living things like trees and flowers that grow in soil (6)
  4. 6. General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate (plural) (4)
  5. 8. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (plural) (5)
  6. 9. A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect (plural) (7)
  7. 12. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (plural) (5)
  8. 15. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers (4)