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. When a substance has a rapid chemical reaction with oxygen, and burns.
2. These metals are known for their durability, rarity, and beauty.
3. An animal that often sleeps in caves (cave guest), but must return to the surface to find food eg bats, frogs, and the oilbird.
4. Usually a violent type of volcanic eruption, with clouds of gas, and dust being expelled high into the atmosphere.
5. A magnet that’s magnetic field is produced, only when it is hooked to a battery, or an electric current.
6. When a ray of light bends slightly, as it enters water, or glass, because light travels slower in those conditions, it is said to do this.
7. We use satellites to enable us to do this, by relaying telephone conversations, radio programs, tv broadcasts, internet, e-mail, and distress calls.
8. A network of satellites, aides in this, by using Global Positioning System (GPS), to allow boaters, pilots, hikers, and motor vehicle drivers to pinpoint their position, within metres.
9. Io, Europa, Ganymede, and which other of Jupiter’s satellites, were the first satellites, apart from our moon, to be discovered.
10. A substance that is composed of elements, joined together chemically, with one another, in a variety of different ways.
11. We see objects, because they do what to the light fromthe Sun, into our eyes.
12. Petroleum in its natural form, before it is distilled in the refinery, ….oil.
13. An atom is a unit of matter, made up of protons and neutrons, consisting of a heavy core called an …..nucleus.
14. Above the troposphere is the stratosphere, containing the Earth’s ozone layer, which filters out the harmful ultraviolet rays, which ……from the sun.
15. The heart of a nuclear power plant is the reactor, which contains this fuel, where control rods are moved in and out of the reactor core, to undergo a controlled chain reaction, to release energy, mainly as heat.
16. A force that resists motion, creating heat.
17. Diamonds are crystals of this, that were formed under tremendous heat and pressure.
18. These are formed when water is heated to boiling point, by rocks below ground, causing it to shoot into the air, and named from an Icelandic word meaning to gush forth.
19. As the air rises, containing invisible water vapour, it cools down. The water vapour condenses around tiny specks of dust, or salt, and forms visible droplets of water, which can be seen as this.
20. A single orbit around a heavenly body, eg the one year it takes for the Earth to travel around the Sun.
21. A smaller body that revolves around a star, does not emit their own visible light, but shine by reflecting the sunlight.
22. For a long time this has been classed as the ninth, and farthest planet from the Sun, although at perihelion, it is closer than Neptune, but is now thought to be an asteroid.
23. The eighth planet from the Sun, thirty times further from the Sun than Earth, and takes nearly 165 years to complete each orbit around the Sun, and is now classified as a dwarf planet.
24. Saturn’s largest moon, with a dense atmosphere, composed maily of nitrogen.
25. The middle layer of the Earth, between the crust and the core.
• Find the answers to the quiz in the grid below.