Climate Change Word Search and Scramble Activity

Climate change vocabulary review with 25 terms, including greenhouse gases, carbon footprint and sustainability, worked through a word search, a word scramble and a definitions page.
Grades
Grades 6–11
Pages
7
File type
Multiple File Types
Answer key
Included

Updated Sep 27, 2026

Subject
Earth Sciences, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Science
Topic
Word Search, Word Scramble
Resource types
Word Searches
Answer key
Included

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About this resource

Your students will love this engaging science review activity. Everyone loves word searches and scrambles and they make for a great review activity that is fun and competitive.

This interactive game reinforces key scientific concepts and theories, ensuring curriculum relevance and accuracy.

The game package includes 25 common Climate Change terms and concepts.

The first part of this activity is a word search using the common terms while the second part uses the same terms in a word scramble and define where your students need to unscramble the word and define it.

Simply print and go. This is a no-prep activity and can be used to introduce terms, review, or as additional work for those who finish early.

Tailor the experience to the level of your students. You can use one or both parts to help your students learn key concept terms.

Some example terms include:

  1. Climate change

  2. Global warming

  3. Greenhouse gases

  4. Carbon dioxide

  5. METHANE

  6. Fossil fuels

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Define key climate change terms

  • Recognize and spell climate change vocabulary

Skills covered

  • Vocabulary definition — writing the meaning of each unscrambled climate term, such as carbon footprint

  • Term recognition — locating terms in the grid and rebuilding scrambled spellings

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Climate change

  • Greenhouse gases

  • Carbon footprint

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