Florida Manatees
America's Animal Comebacks Series
Glossary Crossword Puzzle
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1. electronic tools that can tell if something is
moving
4. traveling around an area to keep it safe
5. spinning blades that make a boat move
through water
7. the total number of a kind of animal living in a
place
10. a building where people can see many kinds
of sea creatures
11. a place in nature where an animal normally
lives
13. something that is used as a source of energy
or heat, such as gasoline
16. strong walls built across rivers or streams to
hold back water
19. money that is paid as a punishment
20. a place where an animal lives that is not its
natural home and where it cannot travel freely
21. when a kind of plant or animal has died out;
no more of its kind is living anywhere on Earth
22. against the law
23. a kind of animal that is in danger of dying out;
no more will be left on Earth
2. a source of water that flows from the ground
3. people whose job is to study and protect wild
animals
6. an area in nature where animals are protected
from being disturbed
8. paths that are made to connect bodies of water
so that boats can travel between them
9. a young manatee that is dependent on its
mother’s milk for food
12. a crash
14. to have figured out the approximate amount
of something
15. warm-blooded animals that have backbones,
hair or fur on their skin, and drink their mothers’
milk when they are babies
17. land that runs along an ocean
18. places that protect animals from danger