Hard ocean animals word search
Narwhal, cuttlefish and the sea cucumber: twenty-eight ocean words for older kids who know more than sharks. Look forwards, backwards and diagonally in the eighteen by eighteen grid.
- Anemone
- Angelfish
- Anglerfish
- Barracuda
- Clownfish
- Coral reef
- Cuttlefish
- Hammerhead
- Hermit crab
- Humpback whale
- Kelp forest
- Lagoon
- Manta ray
- Moray eel
- Narwhal
- Orca
- Oyster
- Plankton
- Pufferfish
- Scuba diver
- Sea cucumber
- Sea lion
- Sea otter
- Sea turtle
- Sea urchin
- Submarine
- Swordfish
- Walrus
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Find these words
- Anemone
- Angelfish
- Anglerfish
- Barracuda
- Clownfish
- Coral reef
- Cuttlefish
- Hammerhead
- Hermit crab
- Humpback whale
- Kelp forest
- Lagoon
- Manta ray
- Moray eel
- Narwhal
- Orca
- Oyster
- Plankton
- Pufferfish
- Scuba diver
- Sea cucumber
- Sea lion
- Sea otter
- Sea turtle
- Sea urchin
- Submarine
- Swordfish
- Walrus
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About this word search
Each winter, humpback whales travel north along both Australian coasts to warmer waters to give birth, and whale watchers follow them from headlands up and down the country. The Narwhal and the Walrus on this list will never turn up here, since both live in Arctic seas, while the Clownfish and its Anemone are everyday sights on the Great Barrier Reef.
Since entries may lie reversed or slanted anywhere in the grid, open with letters that stand out. Try the V in Scuba diver, the K in Kelp forest and the double R in Barracuda. Multi-word names such as Sea cucumber and Coral reef run together without spaces, which is easy to forget while scanning a long row.
A marine science unit could use the list as a starting point, with each student picking one creature and finding out where it lives and what it eats.
Ways to use this word search
In the classroom
Print it as a task for early finishers, or to open a lesson on this topic. With the QR code on the sheet, pupils check their own answers.
At home and on the go
Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the train or the holidays. A pen is all you need, no screen required.
Play together
Print the sheet twice and race each other. Whoever finds all the words first wins. Or play it online and see who is fastest.
Try it in Spanish too
The same theme also exists in Spanish, French, German and Italian, each with its own word list in that language. Handy if you are learning a language: you already know the topic, now just the words.
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