Animal Crossword Puzzle Creation
Across
- 2. Eggs: are specialized, desiccation-resistant eggs produced by reptiles, birds, and monotreme mammals.
- 3. a free-swimming sexual form of a coelenterate such as a jellyfish.
- 7. Glands: the milk-producing gland of women or other female mammals.
- 8. an organism, such as a plant or invertebrate animal, that possesses both functional male and female reproductive organs.
- 10. an internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates.
- 12. an animal of a large group distinguished by the possession of a backbone or spinal column.
- 13. an animal lacking a backbone, such as an arthropod, mollusk, annelid, coelenterate, etc.
- 14. a solitary or colonial sedentary form of a coelenterate such as a sea anemone.
- 17. Vascular System: (in an echinoderm) a network of water vessels in the body, the tube feet being operated by hydraulic pressure within the vessels.
- 19. (of an animal) dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat.
- 20. firm, whitish, flexible connective found in various forms in the larynx and respiratory tract.
Down
- 1. Symmetry: the property of being divisible into symmetrical halves on either side of a unique plane.
- 2. lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something.
- 4. Bladder: a gas-filled internal organ found in most bony fish that acts as a buoyancy control device.
- 5. (of a plant) having or developing buds.
- 6. Symmetry: a type of balance where body parts or patterns are arranged regularly around a central axis.
- 9. a rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate animals, especially arthropods, providing both support and protection.
- 11. animals that rely on external environmental heat sources to regulate their body temperature.
- 15. a flattened circular organ in the uterus of pregnant eutherian mammals, nourishing and maintaining the fetus through the umbilical cord.
- 16. organisms, environments, or processes occurring at the lowest level of a body of water.
- 18. (of an animal) shed old feathers, hair, or skin, or an old shell, to make way for a new growth.