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. Mongolian nomads live in tents, traditionally covered with felt, called yurts, on these lowlands of central Asia, where they raise herds of goats, cattle and yaks.
2. The Laser Geodynamic satellite has measured gravitational differences, revealing bumps up to 100 m high, just south of this country.
3. Bats can send out different high-pitched ultrasound pulses, up to 200 per second, produced by their larynx, and projected through the mouth or nostrils, received back through their ears, when cruising, locating prey or chasing it, called this.
4. These currents are driven by a combination of the Earth’s rotation and winds.
5. A simple telescope, with an objective lens, which by making wider, produces brighter, sharper, images; and an eyepiece lens, which by making stronger, makes the image appear larger.
6. The male Red Kangaroo, which may weigh 85 kg, is Australia’s largest, and the Long-tailed Planigale, which weighs only 4 gm is Australia’s smallest.
7. This planet is closest to the Sun, the speediest planet, and during its orbit of the Sun, once every 88 days, overtakes the Earth at regular intervals.
8. The phases, which mean mountain-forming, occur in different places, making Earth’s crust very thick under mountains, giving them very deep roots.
9. This, thought to be extinct, Tasmanian marsupial, hunted kangaroos, wallabies, and sheep, had a pouch that faced backwards.
10. A smaller body that revolves around a star, they do not emit their own visible light, but shine by reflecting the sunlight.
11. When instantly heated to 2,500 degrees celcius, by lightning, air expands, and the what of the shock waves is heard as thunder?
12. When the males of this species reach the breading ground, they all sing the same song, which changes each year, lasts from 6 to 35 minutes, and can be heard underwater up to 185 km away.
13. The largest group of nomads, living in the Sahara, the Tuareg, are mainly in Algeria, Mali, and ……..
14. A wild dingo only uses a short bark, when greeting pack members, otherwise it does what?
15. When a quoll is born it is only the size of a grain of this.
16. The naked ears of a Tasmanian Devil become red when it is agitated, or feels under what?
17. A neutron star that spins rapidly, emitting regular pulses of radio waves, was once thought to be signals from aliens.
18. When magma remains in pockets, below the surface of the Earth, cooling and hardening slowly, it forms this type of course- grained igneous rock.
19. Saturn’s icy moon, that has an atmosphere rich in nitrogen and carbon-based molecules, and a crypto-volcano.
20. Moons do it around planets, planets do it around stars, and atoms also do it.
21. Cool stars are reddish-yellow, or what colour, and tend to be smaller and older.
22. This Greek astronomer believed that the Sun, Moon, and planets revolved around the Earth.
23. This planet has the strongest winds in the Solar System, blowing up to 700 mtrs per second.
24. This brush-tailed, small, carnivorous marsupial signals to others by rapping its paws on a branch.
25. These stars are formed in a supernova explosion, taking only seconds, as a star’s core collapses under the immense force of its own gravity.
26. Folds of skin develop into a what, when a female quoll becomes pregnant?
27. This is when mountains are worn down, their weight reduces, and the roots float upwards.
• Find the answers to the quiz hidden in the grid below.