Owl Pellets

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Any animal that lives by preying on other animals (8)
  2. 3. A terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal (plural) (10)
  3. 5. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (4)
  4. 8. A fricative sound (7)
  5. 10. The class of birds (4)
  6. 13. Small mouselike mammal with a long snout (5)
  7. 14. Relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth (6)
  8. 15. The ___ weight of a substance expressed in grams (plural) (5)

Down

  1. 1. An outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something (10)
  2. 4. The part of the body between the neck and the upper arm (8)
  3. 6. Uttering in an irritated tone (7)
  4. 7. Support resembling the rib of an animal (plural) (4)
  5. 9. The part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth (plural) (4)
  6. 11. The bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates (plural) (6)
  7. 12. Rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates (plural) (5)