Evolution and Adaptations Word Search and Scramble Activity

Twenty-five evolution and adaptation terms, from natural selection to genetic drift, appear in a word search and a scramble, and students then write a definition for each unscrambled term.
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7
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Multiple File Types
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Updated Sep 26, 2026

Subject
Earth Sciences, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Science
Topic
Biology, Word Search
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 Evolution and Adaptations 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. Evolution

  2. Adaptation

  3. Natural selection

  4. Mutation

  5. SPECIES

  6. FOSSIL

  7. Variation

  8. Survival

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Define key evolution and adaptation terms

  • Recognise the spelling of evolution vocabulary

Teaching tips

  • The editable Word version lets you trim the list to the terms your unit has covered.

Skills covered

  • Vocabulary definition — writing a meaning for each unscrambled term

  • Word recognition — locating and unscrambling evolution terms

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Natural selection

  • Adaptation

  • Mutation

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