How to Play
• Answer the General Knowledge questions on science, then find the words in the grid.
• Words appear horizontally, vertically, diagonally and backwards. Some words may overlap.
Quiz Question
1. A smaller relative of the hyena, with weak jaws and small teeth, that feeds entirely on insects, mainly termites.
2. A unicellular protoctist life cycle stage, that moves by means of pseudopods, and whose shape is constantly changing.
3. Fossils of these shellfish lived in flat spiral shells, and were prominent marine animals until they became extinct.
4. The process of self-maintenance, from external sources of energy and nutrients, which provide the raw materials for the components of cells to repair and grow, in all living beings.
5. The two metabolic modes (photoheterotrophy and chemoautotrophy), are found only in these, therefore are more advanced in energy and nutrient-gathering than protoctists.
6. A fusion, where bacterial cells divide by direct division.
7. A community of plants and animals, adapted to similar conditions, in certain parts of the world.
8. The motion by which a cells components bounce around, with random jiggling.
9. Eukaryotic (nucleated) cells swim using wavy structures, these, or other kinds of undulipodia.
10. This is a protein catalyst, which initiates metabolism of the body eg respiration, photosynthesis, and digestion.
11. The plant life, and often an incorrect term for protoctists, or fungi.
12. The autopoietic processes of chemical transformations, whereby gases. chemical compounds, other materials, and energy exchange with the surroundings.
13. Biomineralization is exhibited in organisms in all five kingdoms, and is the live cell production, and incorporation of these, into their bodies or protective coverings.
14. A non-vascular plant, which requires water, so that the sperm can travel from the male sex organs, to the female sex organs, for fertilization.
15. A secreted cluster of tough, sticky, threads, holds it firmly on the rocks.
16. This Antarctic bird, feeds on small insects, crustaceans, and molluscs, close to the shore, in winter, but sometimes moves inland, to freshwater streams, and ponds in other seasons.
17. The Earth’s magnetic ones do not remain in fixed locations, but wander over a small region of the Earth’s surface.
18. A filamentous green algae, with a spiral arrangement of the chloroplasts, found in fresh water.
19. The plural of stoma, pores through which air enters, located on the underside of a leaf.
20. A large multinucleate, hard walled, structure, that is a result of the fusion of two gametangia.
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