Author: Biology Junction Team

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

Sponges Puzzle

 

Sponges, Cnidarians, & Ctenophorans

Across

4. live in oceans & seas

5. ability to produce their own light such as the ctenophorans

6. phylum containing sponges

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

9. example of a freshwater cnidarian

10. underwater islands that from from the limestone cases of corals

14. flexible extensions that surround the mouth of cnidarians

15. material between the body wall of sponges for support

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

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

18. how animals like sponges feed 19. regeneration is an example of this type of reproduction

20. class of cnidarians containing the Portuguese man of war

23. live attached to surfaces

24. bell-shaped form of cnidarians with tentacles the hang below the body 27. nervous system shape of cnidarians

28. vase-shaped form of cnidarians with upright tentacles

32. phylum in which coral animals are found

33. phylum containing marine comb jellies

34. sponges that produce both eggs & sperm

35. inner cell layer of cnidarians

37. interior body cavity of corals & jellyfish

40. holes in a sponge where water with food enters

 

Down

1. stinging cells in the tentacles of cnidarians

2. simplest of all animals

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

7. cnidarians have this arrangement of body parts

11. outer cell layer of sponges & cnidarians

12. example of a marine cnidarian

13. class of cnidarians containing corals

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

21. sponge has this arrangement of body parts

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

25. any animal such as sponge without a backbone

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

29. large opening at the top of a sponge where excess water & wastes leave 30. number of cells in the body wall of sponges

31. coiled filament inside a stinging cell of jellyfish

36. free swimming larval stage of jellyfish

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

39. class of cnidarians containing jellyfish

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

 

Nucleic Acids Puzzle

 

Nucleic Acids

 

U T E D T G G F H E A G Z K Y X L R E E
Z P P N X T S L J G S D W O N M E N J S
R R R A A B R C H U C A E A I P I E E A
M O N H E J T A G P D L C N L D O G D R
C O M P L E M E N T A R Y I I A I O E E
T F G K A F K F D S K L C M L N L R O M
C R K P S C U D J I C A I Z Q E E D X Y
G E W N I T Z F P K T R J C A H H Y Y L
U A E R D A W Z B I Y O I G A J B H R O
A D C M I M G O O P P H E P B R A T I P
N O I T A L S N A R T H N L T L U V B M
I D E N T I C A L O T U O A C I S P O Y
N E S O B I R W G V C Q S S C U O E S E
E D X S X Y W W Q L K R Z Y P Y N N E N
P S E R D K V H E R K N T A J H J G O I
C P M R W K C U N W E O X K T J A I A R
E G S T C R S A B A S E H P C K T T C U
J F S J I L Z B G I Y Y V B O A P A E P
N I T Z K U N R N N U K O F T N F D N J
P M J O B J H E H M I T B U O C D N H B
S B M J C Z M G D C W L M W F R U Z N S
N I L K N A R F B C R Z H M P I K L S V
X S Y I H J N I T R O G E N V G V D W Q
O P R W I E S R A W M F G S I M D H G Y
H K K L J C C G I Z B R Q U T K A A H R

Find the following terms and then number and define them on the back of this paper.

 

ADENINE BASE COMPLEMENTARY
CRICK CYTOSINE DEOXYRIBOSE
DNA FORK FRANKLIN
GUANINE HELICASE HYDROGEN
IDENTICAL MUTATION NITROGEN
NUCLEOTIDE NUCLEUS PHOSPHATE
POLYMERASE PROOFREAD PURINE
PYRIMIDINE REPLICATION RIBOSE
RNA TRANSCRIPTION TRANSLATION
URACIL

 

 

 

Solution

 

 

Puzzle – Moss Fern

 

Mosses & Ferns
Use the word bank to complete the following paragraphs on mosses and ferns.
Plants that lack tubes to carry food and water are called __________ plants. These plants are also known as __________. Most bryophytes are __________ and live in moist environments. __________ is required so that the sperm can swim to the __________ during fertilization. Bryophytes do not produce __________, but instead produce spores to reproduce. These plants exhibit _______________ in their life cycle. Because these plants lack vascular tissue, they are __________ in height.

__________ is one example of a bryophyte that grows like a lush, green carpet. The dominant stage in the moss life cycle is the __________. Root like __________ attach each gametophyte to the soil but do not absorb water. Both __________ and __________ gametophytes exist. The __________ generation is attached to the __________ of the gametophyte. Mosses are called __________ plants because they often are the first plants to re-enter a barren area. Mosses also help prevent __________. __________, or peat moss, is harvested and burned as __________ in some countries.

__________ and hornworts are nonvascular plants that also grow in moist, shady places. Liverworts have __________ structures along a stem and lay __________ to the ground. __________, like algae, have a single large _________ in each cell.

Ferns are simple, __________ plants that also lack seeds and reproduce by __________. __________ ferns are the largest ferns. Most ferns have an __________ stem called a __________. New leaves of ferns are tightly __________ and are called __________. Mature fern leaves are called _________. Spores are produced on the __________ of fern fronds.
Word Bank:

nonvascular spores vascular
underground coiled fronds
Moss underside Tree
Hornworts rhizome terrestrial
male leaflike close
Liverworts bryophytes fiddleheads
top chloroplast Sphagnum
rhizoids gametophyte egg
sporophyte Water female
soil erosion seeds small
alternation of generations fuel pioneer

 

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