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• 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. Substances that release hydrogen ions (proton donors), when in aqueous solution.
2. Also known as tapeworms, they have a scolex, neck, can have mature, immature, or gravid proglottids, and can have male and female sex organs, when mature.
3. Used in botany to describe the club-shape of plant’s parts narrowing towards the base, gradually expanding at the apex.
4. In biology, it is a division of organisms into two groups, based on a characteristic present in one group, and absent in the other, eg mammals that live on land, and those that live in the water.
5. A species of venomous snake, native to Western Australia.
6. A flowering plant whose seeds have two cotyledons.
7. A cell with two of each chromosome, or homologous pairs, in its nucleus.
8. Relating to the partially enclosed stretch of water, which is subjected to marine tides, and fresh water draining from the land.
9. A chemical reaction in which the heat energy is released to the surrounding environment.
10. A star system containing from millions to billions of stars.
11. The structures in fish, that removes dissolved oxygen from the water.
12. There are over seven hundred species of these flowering trees in the genus Eucalyptus, which have leaves with oil glands. The fruit is commonly referred to as a ‘gumnut’.
13. This Atlantic Ocean fish has enormous pectoral fins, like wings, but cannot fly; the flying ……
14. The presence of micro-organisms causing damage to body tissues, usually with acute inflammation.
15. The larva of an ant ……. dig a cone-shaped pit in loose soil or sand, and wait at the bottom for their prey to fall in.
16. The rear muscular body part, the abdomen, of this crustacean is held out straight like a tail, and defends itself with large pincers.
17. In astronomy, any element heavier than helium; the most abundant being oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen.
18. The process whereby a eukaryotic cell nucleus splits in two, followed by the parent cell, dividing into two daughter cells.
19. The main part of a fungus, and consists of a network of cells strung together, that look like threads.
20. This cavity warms, moistens, and filters the air before it enters the respiratory system.
21. This point on a tree is where a branch or leaf shoots from.
22. A cell that undergoes meiosis to form the female reproductive cell of an organism.
23. What one of the five human organs, such as sight smell, touch, hearing, and taste, do when they send information to the brain, to understand our surroundings.
24. A deposit of calcium carbonate, hanging from the roof of a cave, which is formed by drips.
25. This is formed when a cloud of gas begins to shrink, because of the pull of its own gravity, and its interior becomes hot enough for nuclear reactions to tke place.
26. A crystalline monosaccharide, or oligosaccharide soluble in water, which is also called sucrose.
27. Parasitic worm that grows inside the intestines of their host.
28. The portuguese man-of-war traps small creatures in these, which are about 10 cm long, with harpoon-like stinging cells called nematocysts.
29. Many creatures able to survive for a short time out of water, remain on the shore, after the tide recedes, clustered together in regions, between the lo-tide, and high-tide lines, called inter- ……… zones.
30. Saturn’s largest moon, with a dense atmosphere composed mainly of nitrogen.
31. An inflammatory disease of the eye, caused by chlamydia trachomatis, whereby the conjuctiva becomes thickened and rough.
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