Antarctic Animal Puzzle
Across
- 3. Water bears
- 5. This fish produces natural antifreeze proteins in their blood and tissue that allow them to live in water too cold for other species to inhabit
- 6. A small dolphin with black and white markings make it look like a mini orca that's rarely seen
- 10. The largest land animal in Antarctica
- 11. Roundworms
- 13. A seabird that eats other seabirds and their chicks
- 16. A popular marine mammal
- 17. This bird flies further than any other bird in one year
- 18. Thought to be the world’s largest invertebrate
- 20. A large seabird
- 21. A seabirds that only return to land to breed
- 23. One of the world’s commonest species of bird, it spends its life at sea, only returning to land to breed
- 24. Orca
- 25. A pigeon-sized bird with white feathers and a pink face
- 26. This fish belongs to a group of fish found in the Southern Ocean, whose members are known as 'notothens'
- 27. A marine mammal with black back and white undersides that is rarely seen
- 28. A microscopic organism that eats vegetation and can survive in sub-zero temperatures
Down
- 1. A large bird, with a white chest and black wings and back
- 2. Derived from the Greek words for 'animal' and 'drifter'
- 4. Microscopic plants
- 7. This fish's blood is colourless because it lacks hemoglobin
- 8. A flightless bird
- 9. A shrimp-like crustacean
- 12. A marine mammal with 4 species here
- 14. This mid-sized bird with black/dark gray wings, white head and white chest
- 15. This tiny, insect-like animal has a natural chemical antifreeze in its body to prevent it from freezing
- 19. This animal grows to almost 3' long & has special venom that doesn’t freeze at sub-zero temperatures
- 22. A microscopic animals