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
1. The bird eating species of this arachnid has a very large mouthpart or chelicera, with sharp fangs, and long palps, to touch and feel with.
2. The huntsman is large and strong enough to catch prey by force, so do not spin webs from this.
3. The mute species of this bird weighs around 18 kg, so it needs a long stretch of water for take-off and landing.
4. A gastropod univalve, that has long shell projections like legs of a spider, is the common spider …….
5. An entomologist is a scientist who studies this arthropod.
6. Long, slim fish with thick hard scales which protect them, and long slender jaws studded with small teeth.
7. This is the only truly white whale, and it makes such load chirps, trills and squeaks, that it has the name of sea canary.
8. This is a slow moving primate, that creeps through the thickest rainforest, and can grip a twig and hang by just one foot.
9. This phase is when the visible moon seems to bulge, as it waxes from first quarter to full.
10. A mollusk that has two matching shells joined by hinges.
11. Kelp is the largest kind of this alga.
12. The male of this water species, marks its territory with secretions from flank glands, by raking his hind feet over the gland, then stamps it into the ground.
13. A steep mound or spike of calcium carbonate on the floor of a cave.
14. A constellation is a collection of these, that make up an imaginary picture.
15. This and its relative is called an echinoderm, meaning hedgehog skin.
16. When a sperm cell, from a pollen grain, unites with an egg cell of a flower, it will do this to it.
17. These are mainly nocturnal, and some species are so small and busy, that their bodies soon run out of energy and they must eat every few hours to survive.
18. A beautiful, brightly coloured gastropod, that is also called a sea slug.
19. A cephalopod, with a beautiful shell, that floats slowly, with its up to 94 tentacles pulled into its shell.
20. The egg-laying part of some insects.
21. A large cloud of gas and dust in space.
• Find the answers to the quiz in the grid below.