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
- Three moons in our solar system have atmospheres – Jupiter’s Io, Neptune’s Tritan, and Saturn’s …….
- A tiny colony animal, called this, which has a skeleton of calcium carbonate, rests on a rock, and then when it dies, others build up on the skeleton, to form coral.
- Soil is either acidic, neutral or this.
- A well that is drilled through an impermeable layer, into an aquifer, and the water rises because it is under pressure from the water from upper levels.
- The non-existent force, which is actually the rotation of the Earth, that causes the apparent curving (to the right in the northern hemisphere, and to the left in the southern hemisphere), of a ball’s path when thrown.
- The first ten inches of the small intestine, where chyme is mixed with digestive juices pouring in from the pancreas, and gall bladder, absorbing a majority of the nutrients.
- Groups of asteroids that follow the same orbit as Jupiter, named after warriors in the ancient Greek tales of these wars.
- This product. sourced from a red algae, known as Irish Moss, is used to give ice cream a smooth texture.
- The Northern Brown and the Long-Nosed have the shortest gestation period known in any mammal species, only twelve and one-half days, and unlike other marsupials, have a placenta, which they use to climb into the backwards-facing pouch.
- The lower lip of an insect, which varies in shape, depending on the type of food it eats.
- Rust, a microscopic club fungi, is this, because it requires two hosts to complete its life cycle, usually harming one, while the other is left quite healthy.
- The Tortoiseshells belong to this family, so named because of their hairy front legs, and the edges of the wings are scolloped like a tortoise shell; the …….-footed butterflies.
- A short-necked tortoise, that inhabits rivers, which unlike the Krefft’s and Macquarie, does not have distinctive yellow markings on the face.
14. A device used to measure the speed of wind.
15. Denitrifying bacteria are this, which means they do not require oxygen to survive.
16. Due to tension, the upward movement of water through a tiny space, is this type of action.
17. High pressure zones, often just called highs.
18. Cartilaginous fish, such as sharks and rays, do not have a gas-filled …..bladder, to keep them afloat, so they must keep moving or sink to the bottom.
19. An acid produced naturally, when carbon dioxide is absorbed by water, from streams and rain, that corrodes limestone, in a process called carbonation.
20. A venomous recluse spider of Nth America, that has a dark violin-shaped mark on its back.
21. Meaning ten feet, its body is covered with a crusty exoskeleton, the cephalothorax is covered with a hard shell, called a carapace, there are over 8,500 species, some common ones are lobsters, prawns, and crabs.
22. A plant that lives through two growing seasons, often harvested in the first season, because their roots or leaves, rather than their fruit is used for food.
23. A group of crustaceans, which include the lampshells and arrowworms.
24. The distance between planets is measured by bouncing these signals off them, and timing how long the signals take to reach there and back.
25. It belongs to the killifish group, is from Sth America, is a live bearer, and eats the larvae of mosquitoes.
26. Known as the Hawaiian Goose, it lives on the high desolate mountains of Maui, and Hawaii, and raises its young in scrubby vegetation on lava deposits.
27. An antelope, an even-toed ungulate, that usually lives in herds.
• Find the answers to the quiz in the grid below.