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.An animal that hatches from an egg, starts off breathing through gills, then as adults beathe by lungs, on land.
2.The second stage of incomplete metamorphosis, that resembles the adult.
3.The breeding adults of this Australian parrot return to the same nesting site, a tree hollow, lined with eucalypt leaves, each year.
4.A hair-like structure, some invertebrates use to move water through their bodies.
5.Types of plants that do not contain chlorophyll, and cannot make their own food.
6. A bird with a long thin down-curved beak, and webbed feet.
7. A gastropod univalve.
8. These insects camouflage very well by appearing and behaving like one.
9. This large mammal holds its breath to dive, and as it returns to the surface it sprouts the stale air through its blowhole.
10. This mammal the vampire …… makes a small slit-like wound in its victim, with its sharp teeth, dribbles spit, and licks up the oozing blood.
11. It is an arthropod with two distinct body regions, eight legs, simple eyes, no wings, a book lung, and a scorpion, tick , and harvestman is one.
12. The Rh factor, a component of blood was named after this monkey.
13. An Australian arboreal marsupial.
14. A material made up of mainly protein and helps make an arthropod’s external skeleton.
15. A soft, hair-like branch attached to a quill of a feather.
16. Decaying plant and animal material.
17. The spiral galaxy the Sun and Earth belong to.
18. Fine grained limestone, that is used to write on blackboards.
19. A flightless bird that has a helmet, and the male looks after the young for nine months after they hatch.
20. A fish that picks up the sound waves in the swim bladder, and if seized releases a substance to alert other members of the species.
21. This cat is built more like a greyhound than a cat, with a long, flexible back, long slim legs, and a relatively small head.
22. One species of deer, often called the moose.
23. The eggs of this fish hatch in the sea into thin, transparent larvae, before developing into young adults, and swimming into rivers.
24. A rodent active by day searching for any type of plant material to eat.
25. The type of energy from the sun.
26. A South American relative of the camel, with thick, woolly coats, and often domesticated for their fine wool.
27. The structure in a fish that removes dissolved oxygen from the water.
• Find the answers to the quiz hidden in the grid below.