These crosswords are made for kids ages 8 to 12. They are made up of words that are often found in third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grade spelling lists and cover subjects of interest to older kids. To view or print a crossword puzzle for children click on its title.
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Self-esteem
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Mental Health
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when you are happy you. be ________ with your decisions and judgments. self-esteem is how much you ______ yourself. ______ from your mistakes. _______ in everything you do and you will succeed.
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Sentence Types
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Literature and Writing
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'Despite the blinding snow, the freezing temperatures, and the heightened threat of polar bears, the team continued.'. 'Bring me a glass of water.'. 'You go to sleep at 9, don't you?'. 'Her moving wings ignited like tissue paper, enlarging the circle of light in the clearing.'. 'I like cheeseburgers!'.
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Series Circuits
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Physics
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Use the clues given below to complete the puzzle
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The unit for current in a circuit. Provides only one pathway for the current passing through it. A power source. The unit for the resistance in a circuit. The current through a conductor bewteen two points is directly proportional to the potential difference across the two points.
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Settlers On The Plains
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History
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Figure out the hint and fill in the word that matches
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offered 160 acres of land. financed agricultural colleges. an invested, new type of farming. payments owed in which money is needed to be earned. foreign races.
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Settling the Chesapeake
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History
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This country originally had claim to the land where Jamestown was colonized. . He was the leader of the settlement in Jamestown.. Colony where Jamestown was located. John ____ married Pocahontas, this establishing peace between the settlers and the Indians.. This company, which was later called the Virginia Company, founded Jamestown..
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Sewing
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Recreation
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Complete the crossword puzzle.
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A ____________ is a safe place to hold pins and needles. _________ are used got trimming, clipping, and cutting threads.. A _______ protects your finger while uou are hand sewing.. Pass ________ objects handle first.. You will use a ____ ________ to remove stitches..
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Shadowcry by Jenna Burtenshaw
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Books
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people who are under D'ru influence. a group of people that have magical powers . main character father. little girl who lost there parents. the man who hit Artemis in the face with a bow in the beginning of the story.
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Shakespeare
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Literature and Writing
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Shakespeare's first name is _______.. A humorous play is called a ______.. _______ is a play which involves witches.. Shakespeare was a __________.. Shakespeare was born in _________-Upon-Avon.
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Shakespeare
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Literature and Writing
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Shakespeare's second brother.. One of the twins. H_____. Shakespeare's first name.. Shakespeare's sister that died at age seven.. Shakespeare's mother..
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Shakespeare's Plays
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Literature and Writing
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Complete Shakespeare's crossword of plays
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Written 1605. Written between 1590 - 1593. It is my longest play written with 30,557 words. Written 1611. Written 1604.
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Shapes and Angles
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Math
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Angle directions as used in shipping. A triangle with all angles and sides the same. A shape with equal sides and equal inside angles. A shape like a diamond. An angle greater than 180 degrees.
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Shapes and Designs
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Math
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a polygon with 6 sides and 6 angles. the plural of vertex. a closed two dimensional shape formed by line segments, called sides. Sides are connected at points called vertices.. a polygon with 7 sides and 7 angles. a polygon with 5 sides and 5 angles.
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Shark Finning
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Animals
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an animal with sharp teeth in that lives the water. inludes all the living orgaisims existing together in a partiular area. people are doing this to sharks to make shark-fin-soup. A country where people eat shark-fin-soup. fishermen do this.
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Shark's Survival Story
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Animals
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The lack of drinking water. /Water full of salt. A deadly marine animal. Visions made by the mind. Someone who survives a life or death situation.
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Sharks
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Animals
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biggest shark ever. shark with blue skin. people who catch sharks for sport. smallest shark ever. fastest shark in the ocean.
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Sharks
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Animals
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Shark egg sacs.. This line feels motion in water.. The fastest shark.. The material that is the shark's skeleton.. The name of baby sharks..
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Sharks
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Animals
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Located between the pelvic fins and used to transfer sperm into the female reproductive tract. An unpaired fin on the sharks back. Located below the eyes and above the mouth of the shark. An unpaired fin located on the underside of the shark close to its anus. Slits which allow breathing.
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Shooting Star's
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Astronomy
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is the combining of nuclei of light atoms. the lightset of all gases and the most abondant element in the universe. the characteristic physical property of a subtance is equal to the mass divided by the volume. is the spontaneous distintegration of a nucleus into a slightly lighter and more. is a pure substance made of only one kind of atom.
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Shopping
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Entertainment
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'I don't like this item, I am going to take it back to the store and get a ......'. 'I need to go to the ........ so I can pay for my items.'. 'I found all different types of products in the .......... ..... for example, lipstick, perfume and clothes.'. 'I need to go to the ........... so I have everything I need to make dinner tonight.'. 'Because I am a student I get 10% ........'.
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Short Story Elements
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Literature and Writing
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conflict that takes place within the mind of a character. central message or insight about life . shows events from before the present of the story. an intended contradiction between . the narrator uses the pronouns I, me, and my.
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Sight Words
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Spelling Lists
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Something that suggests the presence or existence of a fact, condition, or quality. Gentle; kindly. A series of events that are regularly repeated in the same order.. A colorless fluid containing white blood cells. A piece of a homogeneous solid substance.
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Sights in London
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World Geography
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the crown jewels are here. the traditional place of coronation. this river flows through London. Nelsonīs Column is here. home of the Queen.
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Sign of the Beaver
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Books
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showing or expressing sorrow. happens quite often. small amount. able to do things well. evergreen coniferous tree with needle-shaped leaves.
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Signs of the Zodiac
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Other
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Ford Model Car. Valentine Day Baby. Ram. Canadian TV Award. Celestial Archer.
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Silent Double Letters
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Spelling Lists
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maybe. try again. spit. money. sharp.
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Silent W and Silent K
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Spelling Lists
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The _____ lived in a castle with King Arthur and protected him.. If you _______ carefully, you may hear the bird sing.. Please ______ me a letter.. I _____ you a postcard from Spain.. The boys love to get on the floor and __________. Not me!.
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Simple Machines
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Other
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a wheel barrow is one of these. a plank can be one of these. cars have these. a axe can be one of these. a rope on a branch is one of these.
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Simple Machines
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Technology
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Number of times a machine multiplies a force. A modification of a pulley. A straight slanted surface. Flat surface. Made of two inclined planes put together.
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Sing Down the Moon
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Books
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Party. To fly by a quick light flapping. A rope or chain. Little push. To shed tears.
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Sir Isaac Newton
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History
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Complete the following about Sir Isaac Newton
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discovered the three laws of motion. another name for the first law of motion. movement. scientist that influenced Newton. an object accelerates because force acts on it.
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Six Snakes That Share Our World
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Animals
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Rosy Boa lives on this continent. this snake lives across a wide range that includes both Europe and Asia. the Yellow-Bellied Sea Snake lives in both the Indian and ___________ Oceans. area that is the natural home or habitat for an animal or plant. animal that hunts other animals for food.
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Skeletal System
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Body
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Protects the spinal cord. Makes up the ribcage. Longest bone in the arm. makes up the forehead. Located on top of the spinal column.
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Skeleton
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Body
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a cage of bones that surrounds the heart, lungs and liver to protect them. the point where two bones meet.. a soft spongy tissue that is in the middle of the bone.. adults have 206 and children have 300.. the bone in the upper part of your thigh or leg..
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Skin & Pain
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Body
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What is responsible to give you the sense of touch or pain?. Second Layer of Skin below Epidermis is called. What allows your skin to tan?. What is easier to see, the older you get?. Outter layer of skin.
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Slavery
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History
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Mainly a Northern group who wanted to end slavery. Shackles that went around the slaves wrists and ankles. The draft. A fugitive slave that escaped through the underground railroad and was on the biggest speakers for the end of slavery. To free.
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Slavery & Civil War
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History
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the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state. a person who is fleeing, from prosecution. a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government. a place where an army or other group of persons or an individual is lodged in a tent or tents or other temporary means of shelter.. bondage, servitude refer to involuntary subjection to another or others. .
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Slavery and Civil War
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History
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Abandon in way considered disloyal or tracherous.. A state of the US in which slavery was illegal.. A person not in the armed sevices or the police force.. A place with temporary accommodations of huts,tents,or other structures,typically used by soldiers,refugees,prisoners,or other travelers.. The state of being a slave..
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Slavery and Civil War
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History
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The group of 11 states that left the Union, also called the Confederate States of America.. A state that did not allow slavery before the Civil War.. A doctrine or belief that government is created by and subject to the will of the people.. A person who is not in the military.. The practice of holding people against their will and making them carry out orders..
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Slavery and Civil War
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History
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The action of withdrawing formally from membership of federation or body especially a political state.. Abandon.. A place to rest.. Being owned by another.. A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States..
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Slavery and North vs. South Economy
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History
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cotton and Tabasco were the main products produced for its value than being used. believed their way of slavery was abolished. the South is known as the ________. the state where the first slaves were sent in America. African American woman who believed blacks were happy as slaves .
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Slavery and Unaddressed Issues
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History
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_____ and slavery never appear in the Constitution. delegates argued that slavery was fundamentally a ____ institution. under Article I, Section 9 it gave slave owners an additional ____ years to bring new slaves from Africa or the West Indies to theU.S.. third paragraph of Article IV, Section 2. withdraw.
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Slaves and Colonists
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History
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The ___________ colonies didn't need many slaves for farming because of the lack of rich soil. (fill in the blank). Did slaves usually have clothes on the slave ships? (yes or no) . Were children used as slaves too? (yes or no) . Where were slaves taken from?. Families were separated. (true or false).
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Sleet
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Meteorology
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ice pellets. the sleet builds up until it can't hold any more. destuctive. sleet,rain,hail,snow. coded.
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Slopes and Linear Equations
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Math
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A variable in an equation that may have its value freely chosen without considering values of any other variable. . A number that describes both the direction and the steepness of the line.. It has at least one set of values for the unknowns that satisfies every equation in the system.. An equation between two variables that gives a straight line when plotted on a graph.. A system that typically results in impossible statements, such as 0=5..
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Sloth
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Animals
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The color of sloth's ___ is silver-gray.. They are ___________. They does not move close for 19 hours but they work at night.. They _____ about 20 hours of _____ from one day to 15 hours at the longest.. The sloth's biggest enemy is _____.. This is call because sloth is they are slowness of movement..
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Small Bodies in Space & Planets
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Astronomy
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the sun. the hottest planet in the solar system. recognized for its bright and large rings. most live in the asteroid belt. the 'red planet'.
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Smallest Dragon Boy
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Books
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exercise;effort. stretch marks; stripes. doubting; unable to believe. ridicule;mock. sorrowful;sad.
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Snakes
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Animals
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snake with a hood. sleep through winter. scary type of teeth. way a snake moves on land. class of animal snakes belong to.
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Snow Leopard
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Animals
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They use scent markings to track and .... The scientific name for the snow leopard. Big cat with white fur. where a Snow leopard lives. what a Snow Leopards lives.
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Snow Leopards
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Animals
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Poacher hunt snow leopards for their?. Where do snow leopards live?. What order are the snow leopards in?. Where do snow leopards go during the summer. Where do the snow leopards live during the winter .
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