Egg

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity (5)
  2. 4. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective (3)
  3. 5. A structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young (4)
  4. 7. Nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (4)
  5. 9. Red, blue and yellow are all examples of this (5)
  6. 10. The production of young from an egg (5)

Down

  1. 1. A long narrow opening (5)
  2. 2. A substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (5)
  3. 4. To take in solid food (3)
  4. 6. The hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts (5)
  5. 8. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (4)
  6. 9. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole (4)