Earth Sciences Word Search Puzzles

Earth Sciences Word Searches

All items below are categorized by their difficulty level and target audience so you can pick the perfect level of fun and education. We put them in alphabetical order and show the words hidden in the grid so you can quickly page through the list and find one that meets your needs. The words can be in several directions or only forward and down if you need something for the youngsters.

To view or print a Earth Sciences word search puzzle click on its title. Once you've clicked a title you see a link to separate answer grid page with hints for the teachers that show where the words start. Our most important instruction is that we want you to be sure to have fun while you learn!!!

Title	Instructions / Description	Puzzle Words	Difficulty	Word Direction
Volcano		ACTIVE, ASH, CHAMBER, CRATER, ERUPTION, EXTINCT, FLOW, HEAT, LAVA, LAYER, MAGMA, MOUNTAIN, ROCK, SMOKE, THROAT, VENT, VOLCANO	Older Children	Forward Only
Volcano		ASH, CRATER, DISASTER, DORMANT, EROSION, ERUPTION, LAVA, MAGMA, PUMICE, SUMMIT, VENT, VOLCANOLOGIST	Big	Forward and Backward
Volcano		ASH CLOUD, BLUE LAVA, CALDERA, CONTINENTAL DRIFT, CRUST, CRYOERUPTION, CRYOVOLCANO, EARTH, EARTHQUAKE SWARM, ERUPTION, GAS, GEOLOGY, GEYSER, HAWAII, HERCULANEUM, INNER CORE, KILAUEA, LAHAR, LANDSLIDE, LAVA, MAGMA, MANTLE, MARS, MEGA ERUPTION, MID OCEAN RIDGE, MONA LOA, MOUNT KRAKATOA, MOUNT SINABUNG, MOUNT ST HELENS, MOUNT VESUVIUS, NORTH AMERICAN PLATE, OLD FAITHFUL, OLYMPUS MONS, OUTER CORE, PACIFIC PLATE, POMPEII, PRESSURE, PYROCLASTIC FLOW, RING OF FIRE, SAN ANDREAS, SCIENCE, SEA FLOOR SPREADING, STEAM VENT, SUBDUCTION ZONE, SULFER, SUPERVOLCANO, TSUNAMI, VEI, VOLCANO, YELLOWSTONE	Very Difficult	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
Volcanoes		ACTIVE, ASH, BURST, DORMANT, EARTH, ERUPT, EXTINCT, LAVA, MAGMA, VOLCANO	Older Children	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
Volcanoes		ACTIVE, ASPHYXIATE, CATACLYSMIC, CONDUIT, CRUST, DORMANT, EXTINCT, GEOTHERMAL ENERGY, INNER CORE, LAVA, MAGMA, MANTLE, NAPLES, NUTRIENTS, OUTER CORE, POMPEII, PUMICE STONE, TECTONIC PLATE, VENT, VESUVIUS	Big	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
Volcanoes		ASH, CRUST, ERUPTION, GAS, GEYSER, ICELAND, LAVA, LAYERS, MAGMA, MAGMA RESERVOIR, MANTLE, MUDFLOW, PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, PLATE TECTONICS, VENT, VOLCANIC CONE	Big	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
Volcanoes and Earthquakes		ASH, BASEMENT ROCKS, BATHOLITH, BLOCK, BOMB, CALDERA, CINDER, CINDER CONE, COMPOSITE CONE, CRATER, CRUST, DIKE, EARTHQUAKE, ELASTIC REBOUND, EPICENTER, FAULT SCARP, FISSURE ERUPTION, FOCUS, HOTSPOT, LAHAR, LAPILLI, MAGMA CHAMBER, MAGNITUDE, MANTLE, P WAVE, PAHOEHOE, PERIDOTITE, PILLOW LAVA, PIPE, PLUTON, PYROCLASTIC, PYROCLASTIC FLOW, RICHTER SCALE, S WAVE, SEISMIC WAVE, SEISMOGRAM, SEISMOMETER, SHIELD VOLCANO, SILL, SURFACE WAVE, TSUNAMI, VOLCANIC ARC, VOLCANO, XENOLITH	Very Difficult	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
Volcanos		AFFECT, AMERICA, ARISE, ASH, ATLANTIC, ATMOSPHERIC, BOUNDARY, CAUSED, COOL, CORE, COUNTRY, CRUST, DEEP, DIAPIR, DIVERGENT, DIVERGING, EARTH, EAST, ERUPTING, ERUPTION, FIELD, FORM, FOUND, GRAY, HAWAII, HOME, HOT, HOTSPOT, LAND, LARGE, LAVA, MAGMA, MANTLE, MID, NORTH, OBJECT, OCEAN, PACIFIC, PLANETARY, PLATE, RANGE, RESULT, RIDGE, SUN, SURFACE, TECTONIC, TEMPERATURE, VOLCANIC, VOLCANISM, VOLCANO	Hard	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
Water		ABSOLUTE PRESSURE, ABSORB, APHOTIC, ARCHIMEDES PRINCIPLE, BUOYANCY, CALORIE, CELL, CLIMATE, CURRENTS, DENSITY, DYSPHOTIC, EARTH, ECHOLOCATION, ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM, ELNINO, ENDOTHERMS, ENTROPY, EUPHOTIC, FISH, FREEZE, GAS, GAUGE, GLOBAL, HALOCLINE, HEAT CAPACITY, HOMEOTHERM, HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE, HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE, INERTIA, LANDBASED, MARINE LIFE, MOLECULE, MOVEMENT, ORGANISMS, PHOTIC, PRESSURE, PYCNOCLINE, RESISTANCE, SALINITY, SCUBA, SEAWATER, SHARK, TEMPERATURE, THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM, THERMOCLINE, THERMOSTATIC EFFECTS, VAPORIZATION, VOLUME, WATER, WHALE	Big	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
Water		AQUIFER, ARTESIAN, ATMOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, CALIFORNIA, CARBON DIOXIDE, CLOUDS, CONDENSATION, DROUGHT, EARTH, EVAPORATION, FOSSIL FUELS, FRESHWATER, GEOSPHERE, GLOBAL WARMING, GREENHOUSE GASES, GROUNDWATER, HYDROSPHERE, IMPERVIOUS, INFILTRATION, METHANE, OCEAN, OXYGEN, PERMEABILITY, POROSITY, RODINA, SEA LEVEL, SEEPAGE, TEMPERATURE, UNSATURATED ZONE	Jumbo	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
Water		ADHESION, BOND, CELLPROCESSES, COHESION, COMPOUND, COVALENT, DENSITY, DIHYDROGENMONOXIDE, DISSOCIATE, DISSOLVED, FLUID, HEATCAPACITY, HYDRATIONSHELL, HYDROGENFORCE, HYDROPHILIC, HYDROPHOBIC, LATTICE, MOLECULAR, POLARITY, POLARMOLECULE, SHARING, SOLUTE, SOLVENT, SURFACETENSION, SUSPENDED, WATER	Hard	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
Water Cycle		ATMOSPHERE, CONDENSATION, DEW, DEW POINT TEMPERATURE, DRY AIR, EVAPORATION, FROST, GAS PHASE, GASES, HUMIDITY, LIQUID PHASE, MOIST AIR, SOLID PHASE, TRANSPIRATION, WATER CYCLE, WATER VAPOUR	Big	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
Water Cycle		CONDENSATION, EVAPORATION, GROUNDWATER, INFILTRATION, INTERCEPTION, PRECIPITATION, RUNOFF, THROUGHFLOW, TRANSPIRATION	Big	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
Water on Earth		ATTRACT, BREAK, CANYON, CARBON, CARLSBAD, CAVE, COASTLINE, COLORADO, COVER, CRASH, DEEP, DEPOSIT, EARTH, EROSION, FLOW, FORMED, GEOLOGIST, GLACIER, GRAND, GROUND, ICE, LIMESTONE, LONG, MAKE, MEASURING, MELT, MEXICO, MILE, MILLION, MINERAL, MOVING, NATURAL, PLANET, PLATEAU, PROCESS, RIVER, ROCK, SHAPING, SOIL, SPOT, STREAM, SURFACE, TIME, TRANSPORT, WATER, WEAR, WEATHERING, WIDE, WORLD, YEAR	Very Difficult	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
Water Pollution		ASSIGNMENT, CONSERVATION, CONTAMINATION, COPY, ECOSYSTEM, ENVIRONMENT, FLORIDA, LITTER, OCEAN, PASTE, PLASTIC, POLLUTION, READING, SMALL, TAMPA, WATER, WILDLIFE	Big	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
Water Resources	Factors that influence the availability of water resources	AGRICULTURE, AVERAGE, BREAKDOWN, CHALLENGE, CLIMATE, CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATOLOGIST, COMMERCIAL, COMMODITY, COMMUNICATION, CRUCIAL, CURRENT, DEGRADATION, DEVELOPMENT, DISTANCE, DOMESTIC, ECONOMIC, ECONOMY, EDUCATION, FACTORIES, FARMING, GEOGRAPHY, GROUNDWATER, GROWING, HUMAN, IMPORTANCE, IMPORTANT, INCLUDING, INDUSTRY, IRRIGATION, MINING, MISMANAGEMENT, PERCENT, PHYSICAL, PRECIPITATION, PROPORTION, RAINFALL, REGIONAL, RESOURCE, RURAL, SCARCE, SECURITY, STAGNANT, SUBSISTENCE, SURFACE, UNEVENNESS, URBAN, URBANISATION, WATER, WATER TABLE	Very Difficult	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
Water Sources		ACID, AEROBIC, ALGAL BLOOM, ALKALINITY, ANAEROBIC, AQUIFER, ARTESIAN WELL, CHLOREA, COLIFORM, CONE OF DEPRESSION, CROSS CONNECTION, DRAWDOWN, EUTROPHICATION, EVAPOTRANSPIRATION, GROUNDWATER, HYDROLOGIC CYCLE, HYPOLIMNION, MAXIMUM CONTAMINATE LEVEL, PERMEABILITY, SALTWATER INTRUSION, SURFACE WATER, URBAN WATER CYCLE, WATER, WATER TABLE, WELL	Hard	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
Water, Land, Air		COLLECTION, CONDESATION, EVAPORATION, FRESHWATER, GAS, GROUNDWATER, ICE, LAKE, LAND, LIQUID, PRECIPITATION, RIVER, ROCK, SALTWATER, SAND, SEA, SOIL, SOLID, STREAM, WATER, WATER VAPOUR, WATERCYCLE, WATERFALL	Big	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
WAVE		COMPLETE, CREST, CYCLE, DISTANCE, FIXED, FREQUENCY, FULL, HERTZ, HOUR, IMAGINE, INSTANT, LOCATION, LONGITUDINAL, MEDIUM, MINUTE, MOTION, MOVING, NUMBER, OSCILLATION, PARTICLE, PATTERN, PERIOD, POSITION, PROPAGATE, QUANTITY, RATE, RATIO, RELATIONSHIP, SIMPLY, SINE, SPEED, TIME, TRAVEL, UNIT, VELOCITY, VIBRATION, WAVE	Jumbo	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
Weathering and Erosion	Find the following words in the wordsearch	BIOLOGICAL, BOULDERS, CHEMICAL, CURRENTS, DEPOSITION, EROSION, FREEZETHAW, FROST SHATTERING, GLACIER, ICE, MATERIAL, ONION SKIN, RIVERS, ROOTS, SAND, SEA, TRANSPORTATION, WAVES, WIND	Big	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
Weathering and Soil Formation		ACID PRECIPITATION, ARCTIC, BEDROCK, DESERT, DIFFERENTIAL WEATHERING, EROSION, GRASSLAND FORMATION, HUMUS, SOIL CONSERVATION, TEMPERATE FOREST, TROPICAL RAIN FOREST	Big	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
What grows in Soil	Find the words in this puzzle that grow in the earth.	BUSHES, FLOWERS, GRASS, PLANTS, TREES, VEGETABLES	Kindergarten	Forward Only
What is an Orchid?		BUD, CLONE, COLUMN, CROWN, CULTIVAR, DECIDUOUS, DIVISION, EPIPHYTE, GENERA, GREX, HYBRID, INTERGENERIC, KEIKI, LIP, LITHOPHYTE, MONOPODIAL, NOCE, ORCHIS, PETAL, POLLEN, PSEUDOBULB, RHIZOME, ROOTS, SEPAL, SHEATH, SPECIES, SPIKES, STEM, SYMPODIAL, TERRESTRIAL, VELAMEN	Hard	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
Woodland Flowers		BLOOD ROOT, BUTTERCUP, CHICKORY, DOGTOOTH VIOLET, DUTCHMAN S BREECHES, HEPATICAS, INDIAN PIPE, JACK IN THE PULPIT, JEWELWEED, MAY APPLE, PHLOX, RED CLOVER, RUE ANEMONIE, SKUNK CABBAGE, SPRING BEAUTIES, SWAMP MILKWEED, TRILLIUM, WHITE CLOVER, WILD BERGAMOT, WILD COLUMBINE, WILD GERANIUM, WILD ROSE, WOOD VIOLET	Jumbo	Forward, Backward, Diagonal
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