Author: Biology Junction Team

Reptiles Puzzle

 

 Reptiles

Across

2. habitat where most reptiles live

4. upper shell of a turtle

7. extinct reptiles of the Mesozoic era

11. membrane that stores wastes in an egg

13. tiny air sacs in the lungs for gas exchange

16. type of circulation in reptiles

18. number of heart chambers in crocodiles & alligators

20. order containing lizards & snakes

23. snake that injects poison

24. reptiles that give live bird

25. snakes or vipers with heat sensitive areas on their head

28. organisms like reptiles whose body temperature is controlled by the environment

 

Down

1. order containing alligators

3. “white” of an egg containing water 7 protein

5. order containing tuataras 6. organs of respiration in reptiles

8. lower shell of a turtle

9. food inside an egg

10. reptiles who retain their shelled eggs inside their bodies until they hatch

12. snakes that kill prey by squeezing them to death

14. protein making the skin of reptiles watertight

15. cover the body of reptiles

17. egg-laying reptile

19. membrane surrounding the cushioning fluid in an egg

20. wall of tissue in snakes & turtles partially dividing the lower heart chamber

21. type of shelled egg in reptiles

22. sense organ in the roof of reptile’s mouth

26. order for turtles

27. blood being returned to the heart

Puzzle Seed Plants

 

Seed Plants

Across 1. needed to break the dormancy of a seed so it will sprout 3. number of flower parts in dicots 5. leaf venation in monocots 6. have two seed leaves 9. young newly sprouted plant 12. example of a dicot 13. female part of a flowering plant 15. developing plant within a seed 16. cone bearing seed plants 17. includes pines and cedars 21. sprouting of a seed 24. shape of many conifer leaves 26. leaf venation in dicots 27. plant that loses its leaves at the end of its growingseason 29. flower producing seed plants 31. largest conifers 34. example of an angiosperm that is wind pollinated 35. seed leaves 36. have a single seed leaf 37. an African desert cone bearer with only two extremely long leaves 38. often help pollinate flowering plants Down 2. world’s largest flower 4. seeds of gymnosperms 7. number of flower parts found in monocots 8. plants with food and water conducting tissues 10. cone bearing desert shrub that produces a chemical used as a decongestant 11. another name for gymnosperms 14. scaly reproductive structure containing seeds in evergreens 18. food supply within a seed 19. example of a monocot 20. mobile sexual reproductive part of flowering plants 21. gymnosperm with fan shaped leaves native to China 22. gymnosperms with fern like leathery leaves on a short thick trunk 23. encloses and protects the seed of angiosperms 25. fossilized yellow resin from conifers that encases insects 28. state seeds are in when they aren’t growing 30. made mainly from conifers 32. largest phylum of plants 33. tough outer covering of a seed

 

Sponges Puzzles 2

 

Sponges, Cnidarians, & Ctenophorans

Across

4. class of cnidarians containing jellyfish

6. number of cells in the body wall of sponges

8. how animals like sponges feed 9. holes in a sponge where water with food enters

13. simplest of all animals

14. underwater islands that from the limestone cases of corals

15. internal buds formed by sponges during droughts or cold weather

16. flexible extensions that surround the mouth of cnidarians

21. vase-shaped form of cnidarians with upright tentacles

22. outer cell layer of sponges & cnidarians

25. phylum containing marine comb jellies

26. class of cnidarians containing corals

27. cells in sponges that beat their flagella to bring in water

29. class of cnidarians containing the Portuguese man of war

32. phylum in which coral animals are found

33. nervous system shape of cnidarians

34. example of a freshwater cnidarian

35. a sponge’s ability to regrow missing body parts

36. regeneration is an example of this type of reproduction

37. free swimming larval stage of jellyfish

39. live attached to surfaces

 

Down

1. sponges that produce both eggs & sperm

2. organism that lives in the tentacles of coral (Nemo)

3. inner cell layer of cnidarians

5. stinging cells in the tentacles of cnidarians

7. large opening at the top of a sponge where excess water & wastes leave 10. phylum containing sponges 11. interior body cavity of corals & jellyfish 12. coiled filament inside a stinging cell of jellyfish

13. protein fibers making up the simple skeleton of a sponge

17. movable cells in a sponge that can pick & deliver food to other cells

18. example of a marine cnidarian

19. bell shaped form of cnidarians with tentacles the hang below the body 20. ability to produce their own light such as the ctenophorans

23. cnidarians have this arrangement of body parts

24. cells of ctenophorans that eject a sticky substance to capture prey

28. sponge has this arrangement of body parts

30. live in oceans & seas 31. any animal such as sponge without a backbone 38. material between the body wall of sponges for support

40. tiny hard spikelike calcium carbonate or silicon dioxide particles in a sponges skeleton

Taxonomy Vocabulary Puzzle

 

Taxonomy
 

 

 Unscramble and define the following words:

 

 

1) toaxynom __________________________
2) iunalesn __________________________
3) rteolasit __________________________
4) ahrecrhyi __________________________
5) lptnas __________________________
6) smilaan __________________________
7) gidonkm __________________________
8) yuhpml __________________________
9) snioiidv __________________________
10) scals __________________________
11) oredr __________________________
12) almyfi __________________________
13) suegn __________________________
14) cssiepe __________________________
15) oibliamn __________________________
16) umnenactlreo __________________________
17) cubsspiese __________________________
18) arieytv __________________________
19) pgehylyno __________________________
20) messciytsta __________________________
21) honyticepegl __________________________
22) etre __________________________
23) oslsifs __________________________
24) moopogyhrl __________________________
25) csdilsatci __________________________
26) idedrev __________________________
27) drcmalgoa __________________________
28) rechbaacataraei __________________________
29) beuiaetrca __________________________
30) optsitar __________________________
31) ianalmai __________________________
32) tpnlaae __________________________
33) guifn __________________________
34) imoand __________________________
35) auyraek __________________________
36) hareca __________________________
 

 

 

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