Climate Change Word Search
This climate change word search covers why the planet is warming and what that does: carbon dioxide and methane from burning coal and gasoline, the shrinking ice sheet and glacier, a rising sea level, thawing permafrost, coral bleaching, and the Paris Agreement.
The science is old. In 1859 the Irish physicist John Tyndall measured how carbon dioxide and water vapor soak up heat, and in 1896 the Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius worked out by hand that doubling the carbon dioxide in the air would warm the Earth by several degrees. Charles David Keeling began measuring carbon dioxide on the Hawaiian volcano Mauna Loa in 1958. His record, the Keeling curve, climbs year after year with a small zigzag, as plants in the Northern Hemisphere take in carbon while they grow and give it back when their leaves rot.
Some changes speed themselves up. Ice and snow reflect most sunlight, a quality called albedo, so when sea ice melts, the darker ocean beneath absorbs more heat and melts more ice. Seas rise for two reasons: melting land ice from Greenland and Antarctica adds water, and warmer water expands. Air bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice cores hold samples of the atmosphere going back about 800,000 years. Corals kept too long in warm water push out the algae living in their tissue, which feed them and give them their color, and turn white.
Free Climate Change Word Search Online Game
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Climate Change Word Search Printable Puzzles
Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Climate Change word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.
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Easy
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Climate Change has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Adaptation
- Albedo
- Arctic
- Arrhenius
- Biofuel
- Bleaching
- Carbon Dioxide
- Cattle
- Celsius
- Coal
- Coral
- Drought
- Emissions
- Expansion
- Feedback
- Flooding
- Gasoline
- Glacier
- Greenland
- Hurricane
- Ice Core
- Ice Sheet
- IPCC
- Keeling
- Kyoto
- Methane
- Mitigation
- Net Zero
- Paris Agreement
- Peatland
- Permafrost
- Proxy
- Reforestation
- Sea Level
- Siberia
- Thaw
- Tipping Point
- Tyndall
- Warming
- Wildfire