Spiders Word Search
Every spider has eight legs and makes silk, though many hunt on foot instead of building a web. Their bodies come with a vocabulary of their own, from spinneret to cephalothorax.
Spiders word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- arachnid
- egg sac
- fangs
- legs
- molting
- prey
- silk
- tarantula
- venom
- web
Spiders word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- arachnid
- black widow
- egg sac
- fangs
- jumping
- legs
- molting
- orb weaver
- prey
- silk
- spinneret
- tarantula
- venom
- web
- wolf spider
Spiders word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- abdomen
- arachnid
- black widow
- egg sac
- fangs
- huntsman
- jumping
- legs
- molting
- orb weaver
- pedipalp
- prey
- recluse
- silk
- spinneret
- tarantula
- trapdoor
- venom
- web
- wolf spider
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Words in the Spiders word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- web
- Silk trap many spiders build to catch flying insects.
- silk
- Strong thread a spider produces from its body.
- legs
- A spider has eight, all joined to the front body section.
- fangs
- Pointed mouthparts that pierce prey and deliver venom.
- venom
- Fluid that stops prey moving and starts digesting it.
- prey
- The insects and small animals a spider eats.
- egg sac
- Silk bundle holding a spider's eggs.
- arachnid
- Group of eight-legged animals that includes spiders and scorpions.
- tarantula
- Large hairy spider that lives on the ground.
- molting
- Shedding the old hard skin in order to grow.
- jumping
- Small spider with big eyes that leaps onto prey.
- orb weaver
- Spider that builds the round wheel-shaped web.
- black widow
- Shiny black spider with a red hourglass underneath.
- wolf spider
- Hunting spider that carries its young on its back.
- spinneret
- Nozzle at the rear that spins out silk thread.
- abdomen
- Rear body section holding the silk glands.
- huntsman
- Large flat fast spider that hunts without a web.
- recluse
- Brown spider marked with a violin shape on its back.
- trapdoor
- Spider that hides in a burrow under a hinged lid.
- pedipalp
- Short leg-like feeler beside a spider's mouth.
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