Compound Words for Animals and Insects

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Play with a partner. Guess a letter: if it is in the word, write it in the blanks; if not, draw the next part of the hangman.

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1.

Hint: Echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk

2.

Hint: Relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur

3.

Hint: Terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping

4.

Hint: Small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests

5.

Hint: A sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw

6.

Hint: Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings

7.

Hint: Long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds

8.

Hint: Any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed

9.

Hint: Largest North American frog

10.

Hint: Large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles

11.

Hint: Pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that ___ when shaken