Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.

1.
s
A projectile that is fired from a gun
2.
s
Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral
3.
t
Big cat with orange and black stripes
4.
a
Social insect living in organized colonies (plural)
5.
l
Big cat known as king of the jungle
6.
d
Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
7.
w
Any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida (plural)
8.
h g
Relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur
9.
c
A person who is born while the sun is in Cancer
10.
h r
Short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches
11.
l a
Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail
12.
m
Small rodent that squeaks, or a computer pointer
13.
s i
Eight-legged creature that spins webs
14.
g n i