| ECOSYSTEMS | General name for habitats such as rainforests, coral reefs, deserts and grasslands (10) |
| REEFS | Coral -; known as "rainforests of the sea", ecosystems inhabited by around 25 per cent of all known marine species (5) |
| TRISHAYEARWOOD | Country singer who along with her husband helps build houses for Habitat for Humanity: 2 wds. |
| PONDS | General name for freshwater habitats such as those painted by Monet (5) |
| ISLANDS | Isolated habitats such as Java and Spitsbergen, perhaps? (7) |
| STREAMS | Freshwater habitats such as the spring-fed winterbournes originating from chalk hills (7) |
| ANTARCTICA | Containing the geographic South Pole, the southernmost continent, a desert and coldest place on Earth (10) |
| BRATISLAVA | Twice crossing desert and bog area to see city (10) |
| PARROTFISH | Colorful aquatic species found in coral reefs |
| RESERVOIR | Man-made habitat such as RSPB Dove Stone in Manchester (9) |
| GRASSLAND | Graminaceous biome/habitat, such as a field, glade, meadow, pampas, pasture, prairie or savanna (9) |
| GOBI | Large, cold desert and grassland region located in China and Mongolia, the _ Desert (4) |
| CARACAL | Also known as the desert lynx, or Persian lynx, this short-tailed cat is found in the hills, deserts, and plains of Africa, the Middle East, and central and southwestern Asia. |
| BIOME | Major habitat such as a forest (5) |
| PRAIRIESCENERY | Wheatfields in Manitoba and Grasslands in Saskatchewan, as examples of the beauty of this: 2 wds. |
| DESERTS | Scorpions are most commonly found in ___ and hot dry lands and grasslands |
| LIVE | They ___ in the Australian and Tasmanian mountains, forest and grasslands. |
| MANUL | Another name for Pallas's cat, or the steppe cat, which is a small, long-haired cat native to deserts and rocky, mountainous regions from Tibet to Siberia. |
| CACTUS | A plant that grows in deserts and has thick stems and sharp spines (6) |
| ORYX | Large antelope of the deserts and dry plains of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (4) |
