African Crossword Puzzle Clues

DIRECTIONS: Print out the clues and the crossword puzzle grid and try to solve the puzzle using pencil and paper.

ACROSS

3. The _____ uses its trunk to pull up grasses and weeds to eat.

4. Impalas can _____ very high.

6. The wildebeest _____ to find more food.

8. Dik-diks live in a _____ pair.

15. A _____ is an area that an animal defends for itself.

17. Baby lions are called _____.

20. A country in east Africa.

21. Black and White _____ Monkeys have beautiful, long tails.

24. When giraffes fight they hit each other with their _____.

26. Baboons live in _____.

28. Zanzibar is famous for its _____.

29. In Zanzibar women often wear colorful _____.

30. A continent.

31. An island off the coast of Tanzania that is part of Tanzania.

32. Animals that eat plants are called _____.

DOWN

1. The _____ come in to finish eating another animal's kill.

2. Female warthogs live in groups called _____.

5. Lions live in groups called _____.

7. They usually wear red.

9. Fossils of early humans were discovered at _____ Gorge.

10. An African tree with thorns is the _____.

11. The legs of this male bird turn pink when it is ready to mate.

12. An animal that hangs its kill up in a tree so the vultures won't see it.

13. They are shy animals that run away from the safari van.

14. It is thought that zebras' stripes protect them from _____ flies.

16. Homes of the Maasai are made from cow's _____.

18. Red Colobus _____ live in the Jozani Forest.

19. Female lions are the _____.

22. In the dry season this tree looks like it has roots for branches.

23. In much of Tanzania you sleep under a _____ net.

25. Traveling through National Parks to see the animals in the wild is called going on _____.

27. Animals that eat leaves from the thorny acacia tree.

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