Trees Word Search
Trees keep their own record. Most add one growth ring a year, so counting the rings on a cut stump gives a rough age, and some bristlecone pines have been growing for more than 4,000 years. A good match for school nature units and families.
Trees word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- apple
- birch
- cedar
- elm
- fir
- maple
- oak
- palm
- pine
- willow
Trees word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- apple
- ash
- beech
- birch
- cedar
- cherry
- elm
- fir
- maple
- oak
- palm
- pine
- spruce
- walnut
- willow
Trees word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- apple
- ash
- aspen
- beech
- birch
- cedar
- cherry
- elm
- fir
- magnolia
- maple
- oak
- palm
- pine
- poplar
- redwood
- sequoia
- spruce
- walnut
- willow
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Words in the Trees word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- oak
- Strong broad tree that grows acorns for squirrels and jays.
- pine
- Evergreen with needles in bundles and hard woody cones.
- maple
- Tree with winged seeds, and the source of maple syrup.
- birch
- Slim tree with papery white bark that peels in strips.
- willow
- Water loving tree with long drooping branches and narrow leaves.
- palm
- Tropical tree with a bare trunk and a crown of fronds.
- apple
- Small orchard tree with spring blossom and autumn fruit.
- cedar
- Fragrant evergreen whose wood naturally resists insects and rot.
- elm
- Tall shade tree with limbs that spread like a vase.
- fir
- Cone bearing evergreen with flat soft needles on the twig.
- spruce
- Evergreen with stiff sharp needles and cones that hang down.
- ash
- Tough springy wood used for tool handles and baseball bats.
- beech
- Smooth grey bark, with small nuts that feed birds and squirrels.
- walnut
- Spreading tree that drops hard shelled edible nuts.
- cherry
- Grown for pink spring blossom and small stone fruit.
- redwood
- Coast redwood is the tallest kind of tree on Earth.
- sequoia
- Giant sequoia is the largest tree by total wood volume.
- aspen
- Leaves tremble and rattle in the lightest breeze.
- poplar
- Fast growing tree often planted in rows as a windbreak.
- magnolia
- Ancient flowering tree with large waxy cream or pink blooms.
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