Aquarium of the Pacific Vocabulary
Across
- 2. an animal that captures and eats other animals
- 5. the place where a plant or animal lives
- 6. an animal that does not have a spinal column or backbone
- 10. a feature of a plant or animal that allows it to better survive its environment
- 13. an animal that eats other animals
- 14. a behavior, shape, coloration, and/or pattern that helps a plant or animal blend in with its surroundings
Down
- 1. an animal that eats only plants
- 2. aquatic plants and animals, generally tiny, that drift with ocean currents
- 3. an animal that is war-blooded, has hair, breathes air, gives live birth, and nurse its young with milk
- 4. marine mammals, such as whales and dolphins
- 7. as animal with a spinal column or backbone
- 8. a type of sonar that toothed whales use to locate prey by making special sounds and listening to their echoes
- 9. an animal that eats both plants and animals
- 11. hairy plates inside the mouth of a whale used for filtering food from the water
- 12. an animal that is captured and eaten by another animal