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 main part of a fungus, and consists of a network of cells strung together, that looks like threads.
2. A growth layer, just under the bark, with a sticky, slimy, film, where cells divide, to form new bark, and new wood.
3. Bread mold begins when minute spore cases, filled with hundreds of dark spores, form on these hair-like structures.
4. Fungi that feed on dead leaves, or rotting wood, helping to decompose it.
5. A protozoan that consumes algae, is covered with cilia, and is in the shape of a sloe, when viewed under the microscope.
6. Astronomers recognise three forms, when classifying galaxies: elliptical, irregular, and two types of spiral; one which emerges from a central bulge, and one that the arms are linked to the ends of a bar, called a ……spiral.
7. Almost everything, visible with the naked eye, in the southern hemisphere night sky, belongs to the Milky Way, except for two cloudy patches, known as the Large and Small what Clouds?
8. Large plumes of gas, that erupt thousands of miles from the chromosphere, into the corona.
9. A what double, are a pair of stars, that appear, from our perception, to be close together, but are actually a large distance apart?
10. A metal similar to platinum, si the densest element of all, and has an atomic number of 76.
11. Every particle of matter, is thought to be made up of these.
12. Excess steam, being released from geothermal bores in NZ, is directed to this type of power station, where generators operate without furnaces.
13. As light passes through one of these, a spectrum is produced, because white light is a mixture of light of different wavelengths, which have a different colour, and bends at a different angle.
14. Scientists who study outer space.
15. Yuri …., the first man to travel into space, was launched by a Soviet A-series vehicle on April 12, 1961. completed one orbit of the Earth, reaching a height of 327 km, and landed 108 min later.
16. This planet is closest to the Sun, the speediest planet, and during its orbit of the Sun, one every 88 days, overtakes the Earth at regular intervals.
17. This Group, is a collection of about 30 galaxies, in a region of space about 4 million light-years across.
18. All the naturally occurring elements in the last column of the periodic table, are called these gases, because they do not, except under very unusual circumstances, combine with anything else.
19. The main surface features of this planet, which are visible from space, are the continental landmasses, the oceans, and the polar ice caps.
20. Additional electrons that orbit at almost the same distance from the nucleus of an atom, are said to be in the same what?
21. The electromagnetic spectrum includes waves with a shorter wavelength than light, such as x-rays, ultraviolet, and ….-rays.
22. The theory of relativity explains how we do not notice any difference in this, which is measured by atomic clocks, and by accelerating subatomic particles.
23. This spacecraft was the first manned flight to orbit the Moon.
24. A spacecraft, whose mission was to loop around Jupiter, before flying over the Sun’s poles.
25. A low-grade fuel, known as brown coal, soft enough to be scooped up by a rotating bucket-wheel excavator.
26. The bulk of our raw materials are found in the ground, and are extracted from either open-cut, or underground what?
27. The area around the Earth that is affected by its magnetic field.