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 largest group of all living things in the classification system.
2.A shrimp-like crustacean that feeds on plankton
3.The Tasmanian what, is the largest living, mainly nocturnal, carnivorous marsupial in the world.
4.The adult of this eel can travel over land to find a new home, and grows up to 3 m long.
5.This means the ability to do work.
6. A rock-like object, that looks like a mudball, and was formed in a hole of a limestone deposit.
7. A star system, containing from millions to billions of stars.
8. The study of the earth and its structure.
9. The force of attraction between any two objects.
10. The root-like part of a large alga, that anchors the plant to the ocean floor.
11. To prevent the loss or absorption of heat or sound.
12. The mycelium of the fungus surrounds the alga, and provides water and the nutrients the alga needs for photosynthesis, while the alga uses its chlorophyll to produce food for itself, and the fungus working together as one plant called what?
13. A particular area where an animal or plant prefer to live.
14. The most common African monkeys are the vervets, many having colourful markings, with different patterns of red, brown, grey, black, and white, especially around the face, which change to show the sex, and age of the members in the group called a what?
15. The scent of these female gypsy insects travels up to about 2.8 miles upwind, where a male picks up the message, with his feathery antennae, that the female is ready to mate.
16. This cat is renowned as a good swimmer, poor runner, but its hunting prowess can be attributed to its sharp eyes, acute hearing, softly-padded feet, and ability to leap 2 m in the air, to strike a game-bird as it breaks cover and takes to the air.
17. This has barbules, with tiny hooks holding in place barbs, which are attached to a stiff hollow quill.
18. The structure at the base of the pistil, that holds one or more undeveloped seeds in a flower.
19. Any two consecutive pulses, one a rise, and the other a depression, make a wave, with the high point a crest, and the low point a what?
20. An organ in a spider, in which several thin sheets of tissue, filled with blood vessels, stacked like pages, is a book …….
21. A relatively solitary blackbird, with a swallow tail, that lives in open forests.
22. This animal is cloven-hoofed, does not chew its cud, and considered by many as unclean, and therefore the meat (pork) is unsafe to eat.
23. A crustacean like a small, lightly built lobster.
24. A parasite, like a flattened worm, that can shorten or lengthen its muscular body.
25. The eyes of this bird fit so tightly in the skull bone, that they cannot swivel in their sockets.
26. The male of this mammal sprays itself with urine, and lives segregated from the females, until breeding season.
27. This small seed-eating bird is often kept as a caged pet.
• Find the answers to the quiz hidden in the grid below.