Earth Day vocabulary games, Earth Day vocabulary puzzles

The Word Search Puzzle is 1 of 8 root word puzzles and vocabulary activities.

Get a printout of the Word Search. Answers are also printable.

Answers contain Latin or Greek word roots. Use the alphabetical word list to circle word choices. Scan and email your answers to friends, family and teachers.

Common Core alignment to a Word Search puzzle is to two key phrases:
"Grade Level" and "Spell Correctly." CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades:
Grade Level: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4, 3.4, 4.4, 5.4, 6.4, 7.4, 8.4, 9-10.4, 11-12.4
Spell Correctly: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: L.2.2d+e, L.3.2e+f, L.4.2d, L.5.2d, L.6.2b, L.7.2b, L.8.2c, L.9-10.2c, L.11-12.2b

1) Earth Day Word Search -- myVocabulary.com

Directions

A word list for the Earth Day Word Search Puzzle is alphabetical. The 20 words, using a Latin root, come from the 607 Earth Day vocabulary word list that you can access from the top menu bar named Word List.

Clues

The Earth Day word List:

abundance, apathetic, botanical, defoliate, deplete, Ecology, endangered, environs, flora, fauna, flourish, inspiration, ozone, pollute, renewable, revitalize, sustainable, symbiosis, terrain, vegetation

Vocabulary words can use common letters. Words can go in horizontally, vertically or diagonally AND forward or backward.
In addition to this Earth Day Word Search, www.myvocabulary.com also has a free Interactive Puzzle, Fill-in-the-Blanks, Crossword and Definition Match activity.

You have permission to make a hard copy for further vocabulary study at home or in the classroom.