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. Mercury. the smallest and innermost planet, takes 87.97 of these to orbit the Sun.
2. This planet, the third from the Sun, takes 24 hrs to rotate and 365 1/4 days to orbit the Sun.
3. Of a plant disease, that occurs with moderate severity, each year, among the plants of a district, but not destroying them.
4. This is often caused when an overgrowth of algae dies, or when fresh water from an estuary mixes with saltwater, causing low or depleted oxygen.
5. The third largest moon of Saturn, named after a Titan son of Uranus and Gaia, and is also an ancient ocean.
6. The eclipse, when the moon passes through the Earth’s shadow,causing the moon to appear darkened.
7. Either of the first pair of maxillae of a crustacean.
8. Free swimming, ciliated larvae, in which digenetic trematodes pass from the eggs, and penetrate their hosts, typically snails.
9. Diseases caused by certain types of bacteria, and fungi entering the body, usually through the foot, from water or soil.
10. The fungi of a particular area or habitat.
11. Also known as fungivory, it is the consumption of fungi, by organisms such as birds, mammals, insects, plants, bacteria etc.
12. A protoplasm resembling an amoeba, feeding in much the same way, without cell walls, and only a cell membrane. When a plasmodium runs out of food, or environmental conditions become harsh, fruiting bodies form, producing dormant, resistive spores, which later germinate to form these uninucleate or flagellated swarm cells.
13. When tectonic plates collide, they can cause folds in the strata of rock, the shape of these folds depending on the force squeezing it, or the resistance of the rock, and when a fold turns over on itself, it forms an upturned fold, called a what?
14. A monounsaturated fatty acid, that occurs naturally in fats and oils.
15. The reduction of blood volume in the body, or any organ or tissue.
16. The optical cone-shaped units, corresponding to a small simple eye, that make up the compound eye, of an arthropod.
17. This tiny animal, which has a skeleton of calcium carbonate, rests on a rock, and then when it dies, others build up on the skeleton, to form coral.
18. A kingdom is divided into a main group, describing body structure characteristics, called …………?
19. The distance between planets is measured by bouncing these signals off them, and timing how long the signals take to reach there and back.
20. Arranged like rays or radii of a circle, emanating from a common central position.
21. These communicantes are responsible for conveying autonomic signals, specifically for the sympathetic nervous system.
22. At the base of the continental slope are the deepest parts of the ocean, and the deepest known spot in the ocean is located in the Mariana …………
23. The female of this snake keeps her eggs inside her until they have hatched, giving birth to tiny snakes.
24. A compound that exists as a colourless gas, which reacts with water, giving the solution ammonium hydroxide.
25. A mutated gene that has lost the ability to encode any functional proteins.
26. A negatively charged ion, formed by an atom gaining one or more electron.
27. The breakdown of all or part of a cell or tissue, by digestion enzymes, initiated by a cell’s lysosomes.
28. A knoblike protruberance at the end of a bone, that forms an articulation point, such as the humerus.
29. Orange, red and yellow pigments, found in some plants, such as carrots and ripe tomatoes.
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