Back Off! Animal Defenses: Armored Animals: Criss Cross

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Across

  • 4. Many animals do not eat crabs because of their hard ___.
  • 6. A hard, sharp, pointed mouth part is a ___.
  • 7. The hard outer covering that protects an animal's soft body is called the ___.
  • 9. Threatened means to be in ___.

Down

  • 1. The ___ likes to eat termite nests.
  • 2. A tide pool is a place near ocean rocks that fill with ___.
  • 3. A ___ is the place an animal lives.
  • 4. To attack in a large group is to ___.
  • 5. ___ are hard, small, horny scales.
  • 8. ___ are hard outer wings.

Word Bank

beak
elytra
exoskeleton
habitat
scutes
swarm
danger
seawater
shells
pangolin