Ecosystems Word Search
This ecosystems puzzle holds the unit's vocabulary: habitat, niche, population and community, the abiotic parts like sunlight, the producer, consumer and decomposer, and the kinds of symbiosis.
The British ecologist Arthur Tansley coined the word ecosystem in 1935 to mean the living things in a place together with the water, soil, air and light around them. Relationships hold it together. In mutualism both partners gain, as with a bee and a flower; in commensalism one gains and the other is unaffected; in parasitism one lives at the expense of the other.
Some species matter far more than their numbers suggest. Robert Paine pulled sea stars off a stretch of rocky shore in Washington in the 1960s and watched mussels crowd out most of the other life there; he called the sea star a keystone species. Gray wolves returned to Yellowstone in 1995 after about seventy years away. Elk changed where they grazed, willows and aspens grew back along some streams, and beavers had more to build with.
Free Ecosystems Word Search Online Game
Play the Ecosystems word search in your browser, on your own or head to head against a friend in real time. Nothing to install and no account needed – send someone the link and you are both looking at the same grid.
Ecosystems 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 Ecosystems word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.
Hard
15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
Print or Download pdfMedium
12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
Print or Download pdfEasy
10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
Print or Download pdf
Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Ecosystems 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.
- Abiotic
- Beaver
- Biomass
- Carbon Cycle
- Commensalism
- Community
- Competition
- Consumer
- Coral
- Decomposer
- Detritus
- Ecologist
- Equilibrium
- Extinction
- Food Web
- Fungi
- Habitat
- Interdependence
- Keystone
- Limiting Factor
- Meadow
- Mutualism
- Niche
- Nutrient
- Organism
- Parasitism
- Pioneer
- Pond
- Population
- Predator
- Prey
- Producer
- Shelter
- Soil
- Species
- Succession
- Sunlight
- Symbiosis
- Water Cycle
- Wolves