Hard space word search
Supernova, nebula and the lunar module: twenty-eight space words for older children who know their planets. The eighteen by eighteen grid hides them in every direction, backwards too.
- Asteroid
- Astronomer
- Atmosphere
- Black hole
- Constellation
- Cosmonaut
- Countdown
- Crater
- Eclipse
- Galaxy
- Launch pad
- Light year
- Lunar module
- Mars rover
- Mercury
- Meteor
- Mission control
- Nebula
- Neptune
- Observatory
- Pluto
- Shooting star
- Solar system
- Space station
- Spacesuit
- Supernova
- Uranus
- Zero gravity
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
Make your own versionSpace, extra hard
Name
| O | R | M | E | R | C | U | R | Y | D | A | P | H | C | N | U | A | L |
| B | L | L | C | A | E | Y | T | I | V | A | R | G | O | R | E | Z | R |
| T | U | I | O | O | N | R | O | O | O | V | M | P | B | T | E | C | D |
| I | N | G | U | H | U | O | D | I | O | R | E | T | S | A | O | B | H |
| U | A | H | N | A | T | T | I | G | R | E | V | O | R | S | R | A | M |
| S | R | T | T | S | P | A | A | T | O | O | C | E | M | R | E | A | T |
| E | M | Y | D | T | E | V | H | N | A | O | O | O | A | E | H | V | H |
| C | O | E | O | R | N | R | M | S | D | T | N | T | B | T | O | O | P |
| A | D | A | W | O | R | E | I | N | O | A | S | N | L | A | E | N | R |
| P | U | R | N | N | V | S | E | O | U | G | T | E | A | R | M | R | O |
| S | L | E | L | O | A | B | T | T | N | A | E | B | C | C | E | E | E |
| U | E | F | E | M | W | O | A | I | O | L | L | U | K | A | S | P | T |
| N | L | E | U | E | S | Y | T | E | P | A | L | L | H | T | P | U | E |
| A | H | E | C | R | I | O | S | P | N | X | A | A | O | N | I | S | M |
| R | P | L | U | T | O | I | P | H | O | Y | T | N | L | M | L | N | P |
| U | E | R | E | H | P | S | O | M | T | A | I | C | E | A | C | I | S |
| M | E | T | S | Y | S | R | A | L | O | S | O | I | O | C | E | N | E |
| M | T | M | I | S | S | I | O | N | C | O | N | T | R | O | L | M | L |
Find these words
- Asteroid
- Astronomer
- Atmosphere
- Black hole
- Constellation
- Cosmonaut
- Countdown
- Crater
- Eclipse
- Galaxy
- Launch pad
- Light year
- Lunar module
- Mars rover
- Mercury
- Meteor
- Mission control
- Nebula
- Neptune
- Observatory
- Pluto
- Shooting star
- Solar system
- Space station
- Spacesuit
- Supernova
- Uranus
- Zero gravity
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About this word search
Ask a room of adults how many planets there are and you will hear two answers, because Pluto was moved to the dwarf category in 2006. It stays here anyway. Cosmonaut is the Russian term for an astronaut, and a Light year measures distance, not time, a mix-up that catches plenty of adults.
Words point every which way here, forward and reversed. Look first for the long compounds written without spaces: Mission control, Solar system and Space station. Then go after Zero gravity, since Z is an uncommon letter and stands out.
A good follow-up is asking each student to pick one word and explain it to the class in two sentences.
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, students check their own answers.
At home and on the go
Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the train or a family vacation. 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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