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. Copepods are the most abundant of the permanent animal what, rarely bigger than a grain of rice, more numerous and widespread in the sea, than insects on land, and spend their lives drifting on the ocean currents.
2. These are the second link in the ocean food chain, consuming enormous numbers of diatoms, up to 120,000 in a day.
3. The most numerous fish in the sea, the third link in the ocean food chain, with gill rakers, that strain food, such as copepods, from water that passes over their gills.
4. These organisms break down dead animal and plant tissue, into carbon dioxide, phosphates, nitrates, and other nutrients, that are taken by currents to the surface of the oceans, to be used by plant plankton.
5. This falls from the sunlit waters to the floor of the continental shelf, feeding a host of animals; some attached to the bottom; some burrow, crawl, hop, and slither across the salt and sand.
6. Coral polyps give off carbon dioxide, as waste product, which is necessary for the dinoflagellates’ process of photosynthesis, as they live together in this type of relationship.
7. Colour cells, in the skin of this lizard, contract in darkness, leaving the skin basically colourless, but expand when the lizard is excited, or exposed to light, enabling it to put on its colour display.
8. A solid halogen on the element’s periodic table, when heated, sublimes and seaweed is a very good source of it.
9. An ornamental legume tree.
10. Enzymes within these, metabolize nutrients, to release energy that can be used to synthesize cell materials.
11. Unmanned probes do most of this in space.
12. If when a substance is heated, doesn’t melt and become a liquid, it changes directly into gas, it does what?
13. Aurora Australis are the ……..lights that appear above the South Pole.
14. Once a meteoroid hits our atmosphere, the friction causes it to produce a trail of light, called this, or a falling star.
15. The period of darkness, as part of the Earth faces away from the Sun, as it rotates on its axis.
16. Geologists have divided the Earth’s history into time periods, such as eons, the longest, chrons, the shortest, eras, periods, ages, and what in between.
17. Seismic surveys, generated by underground explosives, locate minerals by these vibrations (or energy).
18. This is the seed of a grass, which is high in starch; a source of energy.
19. A structure attached to the body, such as an arm, leg, or tail.
20. The Atlantic surgeon-fish change their …… from purple-brown to olive, to tell the wrasse they want to be cleaned.
21. These NZ frogs lay their eggs, not in water, but in damp crevices under rocks, the embryos hatch not as tadpoles, but as froglets, miniature replicas of their parents.
22. Cooler temperatures, as the days grow shorter, until a day and night are of equal length, signals the beginning of Autumn, called the autumnal ……..
23. This is the typical weather of a certain place over a period of time, which is warm near the equator, and cold near the poles.
24. One of the 206 skeletal bones, known as a short bone, found in the hands and feet.
25. A greek philosopher, who people in the Middle Ages looked to for their ideas about science.
26. Skin and hair colour, in humans, are genetically determined, and depend mainly on the amount of this pigment.
• Find the answers to the quiz in the grid below.