Ecology & Environment Crossword Puzzles

Explore the wonders of nature with our free printable Ecology & Environment Crossword Puzzles collection. These are good to test your knowledge about your surrounding, like biomes, ecology, environment, and climate change. 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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Plastic Pollution crossword puzzle
Plastic Pollution

to sort and collect rubbish in order to treat it and produce useful materials that can be used again, impossible for your stomach to break down, used …

Ecosystems, Variation, and Evolution crossword puzzle
Ecosystems, Variation, and Evolution

a different form of the same gene, chromosomes are divided into sections called what?, chromosomes are presented on a diagram called a.., the actual …

Natural Disaster crossword puzzle
Natural Disaster

a storm with a violent wind, in particular, a tropical cyclone in the caribbean, a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the …

Diversity of Life crossword puzzle
Diversity of Life

any free-living thing, something that once was alive is no longer alive, meets all 8 characteristics of a living thing, something that was never …

Ecosystems and Habitat Review crossword puzzle
Ecosystems and Habitat Review

all the living factors in an ecosystem, the study of how living things interact with each other and their environment, all the nonliving factors in an …

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 …

Land Biomes, Continents, Oceans crossword puzzle
Land Biomes, Continents, Oceans

_ forest - trees drop their leaves here, _ rainforest - tiger and jaguar biome, nile in the north, continent north of the mediterranean sea, cold …

Human Impacts on Earth Environment crossword puzzle
Human Impacts on Earth Environment

the clearing of forests on a massive scale, the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of deforestation, the reduction in …

Adaptations and Survival crossword puzzle
Adaptations and Survival

a heritable trait that helps and organism survive and reproduce in its habitat, the environment in which an organism naturally lives, differences …

Food Chain / Food Web crossword puzzle
Food Chain / Food Web

a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas used as fuel to provide energy for homes and industries. rotting vegetable can produce _ , a _ is a linear …

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 …

Ecology Vocabulary crossword puzzle
Ecology Vocabulary

a relationship in which one species benefits and the other remains unaffected, an interaction in which the presence of one species has a negative …

Plastic Waste crossword puzzle
Plastic Waste

tiny plastic particles, typically less than 5mm in size, that result from the breakdown of larger plastic items, the practice of using resources in a …

Marine Pollution and the Ocean crossword puzzle
Marine Pollution and the Ocean

h2o, excessive marine life harvesting, toxic metal contaminating seas, substances with varying effects, harmful chemicals for pest control, excess …

Biogeochemical Cycles crossword puzzle
Biogeochemical Cycles

where carbon is originally located, non-living things, element that has to be converted through nitrogen fixation, process of chemical elements being …

Weathering and Erosion crossword puzzle
Weathering and Erosion

when limestone is dissolved underground, you get a.., leaving the previous season's stalks behind to prevent erosion, sediment deposits here when a …

Water Cycle & Weather / Climate crossword puzzle
Water Cycle & Weather / Climate

the movement of water on a surface to areas of lower elevation, the amount of water vapor in the air, the measure of the amount of heat energy in an …

Weather crossword puzzle
Weather

pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds, cumulus clouds are the puffy clouds that look like puffs of cotton, a tool that …

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 …

Weathing, Erosion and Deposition crossword puzzle
Weathing, Erosion and Deposition

when water seeps into cracks, then freezes, we call it this, these mountains in the us are very smooth and eroded, physical feature of earth's …

Environmental Hazards crossword puzzle
Environmental Hazards

disease-causing agent that infect humans and make them sick, factors that threaten or are harmful to human health, the effect an organism shows as a …

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, …

Environmental Pollution and Public Health crossword puzzle
Environmental Pollution and Public Health

discarded electronic devices such as old computers, phones, and batteries, water found beneath the earth's surface, which can be polluted by chemicals …

Coral Reefs crossword puzzle
Coral Reefs

they provide an important ecosystem for life underwater, the world largest known predator fish, they can live up to be 50-100 years old!, this species …

Climate crossword puzzle
Climate

generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes, is …

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 …

Ecology crossword puzzle
Ecology

an individual living thing composed of one or more cells, the overlapping of food chains in an ecosystem, energy links between different organisms in …

Relative Humidity crossword puzzle
Relative Humidity

the type of conservation that focuses on reducing or slowing potential damage to a collection, _ , mould, salt corrosion if the relative humidity is …

Recycling crossword puzzle
Recycling

the three "r"s are reduce, reuse and, if we lesson our use of, we are, turn out the lights to save, this is made from trees, carpooling …

Weather Maps crossword puzzle
Weather Maps

holds more water vapor, increasing (high)air pressure signals this type of weather. (fair or stormy), in a high pressure system, cool air masses …

About Ecology & Environment Crossword Puzzles

Ecology & Environment based crossword puzzles feature terms and concepts related to sustainability, ecosystems, biodiversity, and environmental science.

Themes, Categories and Topics

  • Biodiversity: Explore terms related to ecosystems, species, and habitats.
  • Climate Change: Learn about global warming, greenhouse gases, and renewable energy.
  • Sustainability: Highlight practices like recycling, upcycling, and eco-friendly technologies.
  • Marine Ecology: Focus on coral reefs, ocean currents, and aquatic life.
  • Forestry and Conservation: Cover deforestation, wildlife sanctuaries, and conservation efforts.

Whether you're a teacher, student, or nature lover, it's a fun way to test your brain and enjoy nature.

How to Download Crossword Puzzles?

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Use a pencil or pen to fill in the blanks. If you get stumped, no problem! The answers are included with the puzzle.

How to Edit Crossword Puzzles?

You can create your own crossword puzzles, by starting from scratch or by editing the existing puzzle (click on the "Edit" button in puzzle details page). You can edit the title, header, font style, clues font size, and words list. You also have the ability to shuffle questions and puzzle size.