Amazing Animals of Asia... Can You Solve the Crossword?

How to Play This Online Word Puzzle?

• 1Click on a picture, and enter the letters of the matching word! If you fill in the word correctly, it will be validated automatically!
• 2Click on the "Check grid" button to see if you made mistakes and to mark incorrect letters in red.
  
• 3Use the Tabulator key on your keyboard to move to the next word in the crossword puzzle grid.
  
• 4Use the arrow keys on your keyboard, to move to the next or previous cell.
  
• 5Use the Delete or Backspace keys on your keyboard to clear a filled cell in the grid.
  
• 6To accomplish your mission and reach the final victory, find all the words in this online crossword game! Good luck!

Wildlife Across a Giant Continent

Asia is the largest continent on Earth, stretching across an enormous range of climates and landscapes. Tropical forests, high mountains, grasslands, wetlands and colder northern regions all provide homes for wildlife. With such varied environments, it is hardly surprising that the continent supports an extraordinary diversity of animal life.

Animals living thousands of miles apart can therefore both be described as Asian wildlife while experiencing completely different conditions. Geography, temperature, vegetation and access to water all help determine where a species can survive.

Famous Animals, Different Homes

Some Asian animals have become recognizable around the world through books, documentaries, zoos and conservation programs. Yet being associated with an entire continent does not mean that a species naturally occurs everywhere within it. Some have relatively limited ranges and depend on particular habitats for food and shelter.

Islands provide an especially interesting example. When animal populations remain geographically isolated for long periods, they can develop characteristics that distinguish them from relatives living elsewhere. Asia's vast mainland and thousands of islands have helped create a remarkable variety of wildlife.

From Pictures to English Words

Distinctive animals make useful vocabulary clues because children may recognize a creature before they know or remember its English name. Turning that recognition into a crossword answer requires another step: recalling the word and paying attention to its spelling.

To continue the wildlife journey, players can head south to our Australian Wildlife Word Puzzle. Another option is the African Wildlife Crossword Adventure, with animals associated with a very different collection of landscapes.

Seven Clues across Asia

This crossword contains seven illustrated animals associated with different parts of Asia. Several should be immediately recognizable, while other clues may take a little more thought. One particularly long answer also makes the spelling challenge noticeably different from the shorter animal names around it.

The result is a compact activity combining wildlife, geography and English vocabulary. Young players can travel through the clues one animal at a time and see whether they can complete the entire grid.