Ecology & Environment Crossword Puzzles

Test your knowledge about your surrounding, like biomes, ecology, environment, and climate change related crossword puzzles. Help your kids understand the importance of ecology and climate with our free Ecology and Climate crossword puzzles to help them better understand these topics.

These puzzles provide an excellent way to review vocabulary related to climate and ecology, finding connections between concepts. Download and print to see how many clues you can solve.

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Major Biomes crossword puzzle
Major Biomes

a biome with tall grasses, also known as a tropical grassland, covering half of africa, which biome covers 3/4 of earth, a frozen layer under the …

A Plastic Ocean crossword puzzle
A Plastic Ocean

the island paradise drowning in plastic, what we want you to do when it comes to your plastic habits, 80% of marine litter is made up of this, we are …

Ecological Limiting Factors crossword puzzle
Ecological Limiting Factors

when plants and herbivores cycle in a population, when a limiting factor is affected regardless of population density, when a population decreases in …

Climate of Earth and Earths Interior crossword puzzle
Climate of Earth and Earth's Interior

the outer part of the magnetic field that interacts with these particles, in this layer, the effects of temperature outweigh the effects of pressure, …

Water Cycle and Weather crossword puzzle
Water Cycle and Weather

the process by which water moves through the earth and the atmosphere, water that falls to earth’s surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail, the …

Air Pressure and Wind crossword puzzle
Air Pressure and Wind

this acts on an object in all directions (2), this instrument measures wind speed, the term when a barometer is at 29.92" hg and 59 degrees f at …

Food Chain crossword puzzle
Food Chain

an organism that needs to eat other organisms for food, an animal that eats plants, an animal that hunts or eats other animals, an animal that eats …

Hurricanes crossword puzzle
Hurricanes

one of the most deadliest and costliest hurricanes ever, a hurricane is declared by the hurricane center 36 hours before it hits, hurricanes found in …

Weathering & Natural Disasters crossword puzzle
Weathering & Natural Disasters

a long period of time without rain, animals, such as wolves, are doing this to make their homes in the ground, when water seeps into cracks, then …

Pollution Prevention crossword puzzle
Pollution Prevention

taking items that were meant for one purpose but can be used for other ones, the total amount of greenhouse gases that are generated by our actions …

Ocean Currents crossword puzzle
Ocean Currents

transported by currents from the earth's equator to the poles, current: carries warm water away from the equator toward cool areas, long-term weather …

Garbage and Pollution crossword puzzle
Garbage and Pollution

- the process of converting waste materials into new products, - a place where waste is buried under layers of soil, - waste materials that are …

Weathering, Erosion, & Deposition crossword puzzle
Weathering, Erosion, & Deposition

landforms located along the shores of oceans made of sand, gravel, pebbles, or shells, a recess in a shore of an ocean, lake, river, or creek, a huge …

Waste Management crossword puzzle
Waste Management

forklift ........... shall be disposed in the wood waste skip/bin, ........waste shall be disposed in the domestic waste skip/bin, waste sign for …

Water Pollution crossword puzzle
Water Pollution

significantly impact water quality by causing excessive growth of algae, increase temperature and reduces oxygen levels and may harm river species, …

The Health of the Environment crossword puzzle
The Health of the Environment

the living factors of an ecosystem, the use of a species to get rid of pests instead of using pesticides, an aquatic ecosystem with high biodiversity, …

Bioindicators of Pollution crossword puzzle
Bioindicators of Pollution

bioindicators starts with m, bio indicators starts with p, occurs through a chemical reaction that produces light energy within an organism's body, …

Ecosystem Vocabulary crossword puzzle
Ecosystem Vocabulary

food, water and or space that limits the size of a population, organisms that are closely related that live together and produce offspring, a group of …

Populations and Ecosystems crossword puzzle
Populations and Ecosystems

the variety of species in earth's ecosystems, the result of a cause leading to a change or multiple changes, a species introduced to a new ecosystem …

Water and Renewable Resources crossword puzzle
Water and Renewable Resources

one example of a renewable resource, the process in which sediment is laid, how does groundwater affect the environment?, the long-term heating of …

Biodiversity crossword puzzle
Biodiversity

unsustainable use of natural resources, the natural environment in which a species lives and grows, concerned with beauty or the appreciation of …

Carbon Cycle crossword puzzle
Carbon Cycle

co2 released into atmosphere from burning, decomposers break down carbon from dead organisms, co2 released into the atmosphere as waste from …

Weathering crossword puzzle
Weathering

causes cracks in rocks to expand as water seeps in and freezes, breaking down of rock and wearing away of rock by the action of other rock, process by …

Environment & Pollution crossword puzzle
Environment & Pollution

an area designated to receive household garbage , solid waste and construction debris, contamination of the air, water, or soil with substances that …

Adaptations crossword puzzle
Adaptations

the natural place an animal lives, indigenous to an area, something an animal has or does to aid its survival, absolutely necessary, unique, different …

How Tornadoes Form crossword puzzle
How Tornadoes Form

wet air, what happens when an updraft meets a downdraft and a dry air mass meets a wet air mass, something that forms in the sky that is white, a …

Our Land and Resources crossword puzzle
Our Land and Resources

a way to divide a place into smaller areas, time _ are areas that share the same clock time, a _ map shows states, countries, and boundaries, a …

Biomes crossword puzzle
Biomes

a large-scale ecosystem, a region in which yearly patterns of temperature, rainfall, and sunlight are similar throughout, found near the equator with …

Environmental Problems crossword puzzle
Environmental Problems

the process by which the land becomes desert, a long period in which there is little or no rain, gases and other substances discharged into the air, …

Ecology and Ecosystems crossword puzzle
Ecology and Ecosystems

continuous movement of water between earth's surface and air, gets energy from feeding directly on producers or the animals that feed on producers, …