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. Anything that effects the surroundings of an organism, or group of organisms.
2. This is the study of the soil, the condition of which determines what kind of plant life, and therefore animal life can survive in a certain area.
3. Anything that is derived from a living organism.
4. Quartz is the most common one, found in the Earth’s crust, and is anything that is derived from non-living organisms.
5. Decaying plant and animal material.
6. If this layer of soil is eroded, decayed organisms, on the exposed subsoil help to renew it.
7. The physical weathering, that causes pieces to break away from large rocks, is known as this.
8. A skin infection, carried by mites, and can be fatal to animals, if not treated.
9. A tough fibrous layer of skin, below the epidermis, containing blood vessels, lymph vessels, nerves, sweat glands, sebaceous glands, and hair follicles.
10. Because Mercury is so small, its gravity can only hold onto a very thin atmosphere of vapour, of this element, that is also part of the Earth’s crust.
11. This is the first 10 ins of the human small intestine, which produces digestive juices in its wall, mixes with the food from the stomach, and secretions from the pancreas and liver.
12. This lily’s leaves are arranged in a rosette.
13. A flowering plant, whose seeds have two cotyldons.
14. This product, sourced from a red algae, known as Irish Moss, is used to give ice cream a smooth texture.
15. It is from the Latin word umbrella, and is a cluster of flowers, with stems of similar length, emerging from a common point on the main stem.
16. The tiny, extremely dense core of an atom, made of a cluster of two kinds of subatomic particles, protons, and neutrons.
17. This layer, made of protein and oil, protects the outer part of the cell, and keeps unwanted molecules out.
18. An ornamental legume, planted in gardens for its blossoms.
19. When a star suddenly becomes many times brighter, it is called a ……
20. This cavity warms, moistens, and filters the air, before it enters the respiratory system.
21. Two or more substances, that remain chemically independent, when they are mixed together.
22. All forces, and machines that apply forces, require the input of this, either kinetic, which is moving, or potential, which is stored.
23. A reservoir of water that has seeped down through the ground, pulled by gravity, reaching an impermeable layer of bedrock, where it is trapped in a layer of porous rock, or gravel, soil mix.
24. Fungi that often destroys grain crops, produces masses of black spores, and the hyphae penetrate the tissues of the host, robbing their nourishment.
25. Quartz is a form of this compound of oxygen and silicon, the hard substance in sand and glass, and a diatom’s cell wall is made of it.
26. The order means hair wings, of which the caddisfly is a member, and the only insect to develop through complete metamorphosis aquatically.
27. 15. The trachea branches into the right and left ….
28. The monarchs and these, are oftem referred to as the milkweed butterflies, because their larva feed almost exclusively on the milkweed plant.
• Find the answers to the quiz in the grid below.