News Puzzle
Walking Fish: Crossword
FirstNews
Issue 486
9th – 15th October 2015
Read the HEADLINES story from this week’s First News: Walking fish! (Yes,really!).
Find out more by matching the key words from this news story to their definitions and then writing them in to the crossword. All the answers
to the crossword are words in the article. These words are underlined for you.
The new banana plant
© R.Gogoi & S.Borah
A spotted wren-babbler
© Ramki Sreenivasan Conservation India
© Henning Strack Hansen
Walking fish!
(Yes, really!)
and can wriggle over wet ground
to move between areas of water.
The Rhinopithecus strykeri, a black
and white monkey from northern
Myanmar, nicknamed Snubby, has
a snub nose, which means water
THEY may sound like
goes up its nose when it rains and
cartoon characters, but a fish makes it sneeze!
that can walk and a sneezing Other species listed in the report
monkey are among 211
include a bird called the spotted
wren-babbler, the bompu litter
species discovered in the
eastern Himalayas in recent frog and the Musa markkui, a new
species of banana.
years.
WWF say that many of these
A report by wildlife charity WWF species are under threat because of
has listed the incredible new
climate change and development
species, including plants, fish and in the area. Heather Sohl from
other creatures, that have been
WWF-UK says that if we don’t do
discovered since 2009.
more to protect the environment,
The vibrant blue dwarf ‘walking’ “untold natural riches could be lost
snakehead fish can survive on land forever”.
in West Bengal for up to four days
ACROSS
1) (in) danger (noun 6)
3) remain alive (verb 7)
4) great, immense, limitless (adjective 6)
8) remarkable, unbelievable (adjective 10)
9) made-up animals (in an animation or comic book)
(plural noun 10)
10) expanding the amount of housing and business in an
area (noun 11)
DOWN
2) the natural world (noun 11)
5) a change in climate patterns, mainly because of the
increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced
by the use of fossil fuels (noun 7,6)
6) a group of living organisms consisting of similar
individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding
(plural noun 7)
7) dazzling, bright (adjective 7)
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News Puzzle
FirstNews
Issue 486
9th – 15th October 2015
Walking Fish: Crossword
Read the HEADLINES story from this week’s First News: Walking fish! (Yes,really!).
Find out more by matching the key words from this news story to their definitions and then writing them in to the crossword. All the answers
to the crossword are words in the article.
The new banana plant
© R.Gogoi & S.Borah
A spotted wren-babbler
© Ramki Sreenivasan Conservation India
© Henning Strack Hansen
Walking fish!
(Yes, really!)
and can wriggle over wet ground
to move between areas of water.
The Rhinopithecus strykeri, a black
and white monkey from northern
Myanmar, nicknamed Snubby, has
a snub nose, which means water
THEY may sound like
goes up its nose when it rains and
cartoon characters, but a fish makes it sneeze!
that can walk and a sneezing Other species listed in the report
monkey are among 211
include a bird called the spotted
wren-babbler, the bompu litter
species discovered in the
eastern Himalayas in recent frog and the Musa markkui, a new
species of banana.
years.
WWF say that many of these
A report by wildlife charity WWF species are under threat because of
has listed the incredible new
climate change and development
species, including plants, fish and in the area. Heather Sohl from
other creatures, that have been
WWF-UK says that if we don’t do
discovered since 2009.
more to protect the environment,
The vibrant blue dwarf ‘walking’ “untold natural riches could be lost
snakehead fish can survive on land forever”.
in West Bengal for up to four days
ACROSS
1) (in) danger (noun 6)
3) remain alive (verb 7)
4) great, immense, limitless (adjective 6)
8) remarkable, unbelievable (adjective 10)
9) made-up animals (in an animation or comic book)
(plural noun 10)
10) expanding the amount of housing and business in an
area (noun 11)
DOWN
2) the natural world (noun 11)
5) a change in climate patterns, mainly because of the
increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced
by the use of fossil fuels (noun 7,6)
6) a group of living organisms consisting of similar
individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding
(plural noun 7)
7) dazzling, bright (adjective 7)
Learning through news
www.FirstNews.co.uk/forschools