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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- 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
The Orca, despite the old nickname killer whale, is the largest member of the dolphin family. Male Humpback whales sing long, complex songs, and the whales in one ocean region tend to share the same tune, which slowly changes over the years.
With words running in all eight directions across eighteen by eighteen squares, start with the longest entries. HUMPBACKWHALE and KELPFOREST are printed without spaces. Be careful with the five entries that begin with SEA, because those three letters tell you little until you check what follows.
Sea otters float on their backs and use stones to crack open shellfish, which older kids tend to find more impressive than any shark. Let them pick one animal from the list and look up one surprising fact to share with the class.
Ways to use this word search
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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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