Swamp
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
1.
s
n
k
Long legless reptile that slithers (plural)
2.
b
s
General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate (plural)
3.
s
a
A situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
4.
d
e
Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
5.
i
c
s
A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect (plural)
6.
n
r
e
The essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized
7.
f
s
Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills
8.
w
l
i
e
All living things that are undomesticated
9.
b
t
e
e
s
Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings (plural)
10.
f
s
Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (plural)
11.
p
a
s
Living things like trees and flowers that grow in soil
12.
b
i
Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (plural)
13.
t
e
Tall plants with trunks and leaves
14.
a
n
s
Living things like dogs and birds
15.
l
e
v
Green parts of a tree that fall in autumn
17.
r
v
e
Long stream of water flowing to the sea (plural)
18.
c
a
t
i
Tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves (plural)
19.
s
r
s
Eight-legged creature that spins webs (plural)
21.
l
a
r
k
The position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape (plural)
22.
w
e
Any plant that crowds out cultivated plants (plural)
23.
f
w
r
Colorful blooms that grow on plants
24.
s
i
To produce tones with the voice (plural)