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Water Cycle Word Search
Free Water Cycle word search puzzles to print or play online.
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Water Cycle Words
8 words to find
- RAIN
- CLOUD
- SUN
- SEA
- SNOW
- RIVER
- VAPOR
- DROP
Drag from the first to the last letter of a word, or tap the first letter and then the last. The PDF has the puzzle on page 1 and the answer key on page 2.
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18 printable Water Cycle word search puzzles
eighteen puzzles in three levels. Easy puzzles are 10 by 10 grids with eight words across and down, medium puzzles are 13 by 13 with twelve words and diagonals, and hard puzzles are 16 by 16 with eighteen words in every direction, backwards too. Themes include Three States of Water, Types of Clouds, Plants and Water and Rivers of the World. Every puzzle has an answer key and prints on US Letter or A4. Every one of these 18 puzzles is free: play it online above or print its PDF, with the answer key on page 2. No account, no email.
Easy: across and down 6 puzzles
Medium: across, down and diagonal 6 puzzles
Hard: every direction, backwards too 6 puzzles
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How to use these Water Cycle word searches
Teachers can use the easy puzzles to open or review a water cycle unit and the medium ones as a vocabulary check before a quiz. Homeschool families can pair a puzzle with a rain gauge or a jar-in-the-sun experiment, and science clubs can try the hard puzzles on weather science. Each PDF has the puzzle on page 1 and the answer key on page 2.
Make your own Water Cycle word search
Add your own words, a name or a class list to these water cycle words and pick a level. The preview is free; the printable PDF with its answer key is $1.99.
Good to know about Water Cycle word search
Every Water Cycle puzzle on this page is free to play online and free to print as a PDF with its answer key, one by one. Only the optional booklet, all 18 puzzles bundled into one print-ready file, costs money.
Start with Water Cycle Words and Three States. They use words like RAIN, CLOUD, STEAM and MELT in 10 by 10 grids with words only across and down, which fits ages 6 to 8.
The medium puzzle Stages of the Cycle has evaporate, condense, precipitate, collect and runoff. The hard puzzle Process Vocabulary adds transpiration, infiltration, percolation, sublimation and groundwater.
Some go wider, with cloud types, bodies of water, oceans and seas, famous rivers, lakes and waterfalls, and water conservation, so a class can keep going after the unit ends.
Easy puzzles (10 by 10, words across and down) work from about age 6. Medium puzzles (13 by 13, diagonals added) suit ages 8 to 11. Hard puzzles (16 by 16, every direction, backwards too) are for older kids and adults.
Page 2 of every PDF is the answer key, with each word marked where it hides. When you play online, the Show answers button marks them on the grid.
Every puzzle comes as a US Letter PDF (8.5 by 11 inches) and an A4 PDF (210 by 297 mm). Print at 100% or Actual size.
Every puzzle on this page plays in the browser on a phone, tablet or computer: drag or tap from the first to the last letter of a word. Nothing to install and no account.
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