How to Play
• Answer the Science General Knowledge questions, then find the words in the grid
• Words appear horizontally, vertically, diagonally and backwards. Some words may overlap.
Quiz Questions
- This is when two different kinds of species of living things exist closely together, and benefit each other in some way, like the clown fish and the sea anemone.
- Four-footed mammals, and birds, usually have pale bellies, so that when it is in the shade, it matches the darker back, which is called ……shading.
- A disguise that causes people or animals to blend in with their surroundings.
- These are among the toughest insects, with a strong chewing mouthpart, can survive on almost any scraps of food, and reproduce very quickly.
- This is when an animal’s behaviour doesn’t require thought.
- The soil beneath the layer of topsoil.
- This describes a body part, such as a new world mokey’s tail, that is flexible and muscular, which can be used for grasping and holding.
- Unlike horns, this is solid bone, developing in the spring, covered, while soft, by a layer of skin, called velvet, which dies as the bone hardens, then falls off after breeding season.
- Different types of beetles will eat each other, if trapped in a small space, but the larva of some species will turn into one of these if there is not enough food.
10. An underwater breathing device used by divers.
11. A Russian satellite that was launched in 1957, and was the first artificial object to orbit the Earth.
12. Faint spikes of hydrogen gas, that commonly rise from the Sun’s atmosphere, to a height of several thousand miles.
13. A hard case covering a butterfly larva.
14. Animals that eat refuse and dead animals.
15.The stag of this species, can take between five and eight years to grow from egg to adult, while one splendor remained as a larva for forty-seven years.
16. The eight movable bristles on each segment of an earthworm, that allows it to hold onto the soil.
17. A large antelope that’s life is dominated by its daily trek from its grazing ground, to a scattered water-hole in the desert.
18. This fish protects its eggs, as well as its fry, some scoop up the eggs, into its mouth as soon as they are fertilized, and doesn’t feed for almost 2 weeks, until hatched.
• Find the answers to the quiz hidden in the grid below.