One Lake, One Home

3. a cold-blooded animal that usually spends its early life in water, breathing with gills, and then grows legs and lungs to live on land
4. a type of amphibian that looks like a lizard
7. Millions of axolotls used to live in the lake but now they are nearly ______.
8. How many years can an axolotl live in an aquarium?
9. an area used to protect an animal or plant, or several forms of wildlife
12. the state of all things being equal
15. the lake from which axolotls are disappearing

1. a body part of amphibians or fish that allows them to breathe underwater
2. the natural home of an animal or plant
5. Some people call axolotls Mexican walking fish or water ________.
6. ________ used and polluted the water of the lake where the axolotl live.
10. Unlike other salamanders, axolotls never lose their gills or go on _______.
11. Which population in the lake would increase if axolotls died out?
13. A new kind of _______ eat the eggs and food of axolotls
14. An axolotl has the unique ability to regrow parts of its _______.