Earth Science Word Search
This earth science word search covers the four big branches of the subject, geology, meteorology, oceanography and astronomy. Its 40 words run from the crust, mantle and core under your feet to the tide, the climate and the orbit that sets each season.
Scientists also split the planet into four spheres: the geosphere of rock, the hydrosphere of water, the atmosphere of air and the biosphere of everything alive. They overlap all the time. A river cuts rock, plants pull water up from the soil, and a volcano throws rock into the sky. James Hutton, a Scottish farmer and doctor, argued in 1788 that the slow work of rain and rivers had shaped the land over a stretch of time with "no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end."
The seasons come from tilt, not distance. Earth's axis leans about 23.5 degrees, so for half the year the Northern Hemisphere tips toward the Sun and gets longer days and steeper sunlight. Earth is closest to the Sun in early January, in the middle of the northern winter. The age of the planet, about 4.5 billion years, was worked out in 1956 by Clair Patterson from the lead in meteorites.
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Earth Science Word Search Printable Puzzles
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15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
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12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
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10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Earth Science 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.
- Aquifer
- Astronomy
- Atmosphere
- Axis
- Biosphere
- Climate
- Contour
- Core
- Crust
- Crystal
- Current
- Earthquake
- Equator
- Erosion
- Fault
- Fossil
- Geologist
- Geology
- Geosphere
- Glacier
- Hand Lens
- Hutton
- Hydrosphere
- Latitude
- Magma
- Mantle
- Map
- Meteorology
- Mineral
- Moon
- Oceanography
- Orbit
- Planet
- Plate
- Sample
- Season
- Sediment
- Tide
- Topography
- Volcano