Marine Animals
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
2.
d
l
Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas
3.
s
Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough
4.
w
Any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole
6.
s
n
Any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters
7.
c
Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded
8.
s
a
t
Any of various large ___ with limbs modified into flippers
10.
l
o
Any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
12.
b
r
u
Any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large
13.
t
Any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus
15.
s
p
Small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers
16.
k
Shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans
17.
s
e
Plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae
18.
c
Unfertilized lobster roe
19.
s
Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm
20.
m
t
Sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America
21.
p
i
Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet
22.
s
s
Either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber
24.
s
p
A porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals