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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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 …

Ecosystems crossword puzzle
Ecosystems

an organism that produces food, an organism that hunts for its food, eats both plants and animals, the relationship between a bee and a flower, an …

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 …

Atmosphere, Weather & Climate crossword puzzle
Atmosphere, Weather & Climate

a rise in average global temperatures, the average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time, large, clockwise rotating tropical …

Weather, Climate, and Currents crossword puzzle
Weather, Climate, and Currents

the global movement of water in the deep ocean created by differences in temperature and salinity (salt content), moving like a conveyor belt, the …

Energy and Climate Quiz crossword puzzle
Energy and Climate Quiz

energy generated from atoms, either by fission or by fusion [7], name for heat energy which is derived from the earths sub-surface [10], renewable …

Introduction to Climate Change crossword puzzle
Introduction to Climate Change

a natural substance formed from the buried remains of ancient organisms that can be used as a source of energy, large, slow moving bodies of ice, the …

Global Warming crossword puzzle
Global Warming

capable of being maintained without depleting resources, outcome or consequences resulting from an action, contamination of air, water, or soil by …

Natural Disasters crossword puzzle
Natural Disasters

a rotating cloud that can cause destruction, a sudden violent shaking of the ground, a destructive storm with strong winds and heavy rain, a …

Tundra Biome crossword puzzle
Tundra Biome

a vast, flat, treeless arctic region, a thick subsurface layer of soil that remains frozen throughout the year, long term shifts in temperature and …

Water Cycle & Distribution crossword puzzle
Water Cycle & Distribution

the percentage of earth's water that is freshwater (2 words), process water vapor cooling and turning into liquid water, water that flows across …

Natural Hazards crossword puzzle
Natural Hazards

point on the earth´s surface above the focus of an earthquake, type of graph that shows how quickly a river responds to a rainfall event, a tidal …

Evolution, Biodiversity, Population Ecology crossword puzzle
Evolution, Biodiversity, Population Ecology

_ ecology explains how ecosystems, communities, and populations are distributed in geographic regions, _ ecology studies the distribution and …

Weather and Climate crossword puzzle
Weather and Climate

movement of air that redistributes the sun's heat over the earth's surface, when the earth revolves, or moves, around the sun in a nearly …

Water Environment crossword puzzle
Water Environment

the study of water, a branch of science dealing with the characteristics of fresh water including biological properties, the world's water supply …

Water Cycle crossword puzzle
Water Cycle

a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere, rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from the clouds, falling ice that are in the …

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 …

Ocean crossword puzzle
Ocean

used for an underwater breathing apparatus, a method or device for detecting and locating objects especially underwater by means of sound waves sent …

Weather Basics crossword puzzle
Weather Basics

the instrument that helps us determine the speed that the air is moving, at higher altitudes, air pressure _ because there are fewer air molecules …

Earth Science - Ecosystems crossword puzzle
Earth Science - Ecosystems

each step in the transfer of energy and matter within a food web, an organism that cannot make its own food, must always be recycled in the ecosystem, …

The Circle of Life: Ecosystems crossword puzzle
The Circle of Life: Ecosystems

breaks down dead organisms, human-made environment with limited greenery, heat trapped by atmospheric gases, algal bloom from fertilizer runoff, …

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 …

Climate Classification crossword puzzle
Climate Classification

temperate _ climates are located near a body of water, humid, warm winters, shows the monthly average temperature and precipitation for a particular …

Environmental Regions crossword puzzle
Environmental Regions

desert climates occur in places where air is.., a plant with spikes for leaves and which stores water in its stems, these stand above the ground to …

Ocean Pollution crossword puzzle
Ocean Pollution

_ source pollution can be traced back to an identifiable source, _ fishing is when abandoned nets or other gear is still capable of catching fish, use …

Matter and Energy in Ecosystems crossword puzzle
Matter and Energy in Ecosystems

a series of chemical reactions that convert light energy, water, and carbon dioxide into the food-energy molecule glucose and give off oxygen, all the …

Weather and Climate Key Words crossword puzzle
Weather and Climate Key Words

the average weather conditions in a day, the average yearly temperature and precipitation over 30 years, rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the …

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 …

The Environmental Challenge crossword puzzle
The Environmental Challenge

convert waste into reusable material, nonrenewable energy sources like coal and oil, keeping waste types apart, environmental contamination, reused …

Environmental Issues crossword puzzle
Environmental Issues

waste material or items that are discarded and no longer needed or wanted, the act of throwing away or discarding food that could have been eaten or …

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.