This word puzzle is useful as a way to revise key concepts and vocabulary. Answers are provided at the end.
Asking your students to invent a word puzzle to demonstrate their knowledge of a certain topic, is an engaging way of assessment for students, but also effective and entertaining for you as a teacher. Of course you will have to let them know your requirements in advance ( number of words, for example). You can then copy the best ones and use them the following year.
Method
1. Complete each sentence using a suitable word.
2. Write your answers in the space provided in the letter grid.
3. Find the magic word that goes down the vertical column.
Hints:
1. This puzzle is about the _____ relation of living things.
2. Green plants are _____s.
3. Animals are _____s.
4. Earthworms and a number of micro-organisms are _____s.
5. Animals that eat meat are called _____s.
6. Animals that eat plants are called _____s.
7. _____s make food through photosynthesis.
8. This process changes _____ energy into chemical energy.
9. All food on earth comes indirectly from the _____.
Key:
| | | f | e | e | d | i | n | g | | | |
| p | r | o | d | u | c | e | r | | | | |
| | c | o | n | s | u | m | e | r | | | |
| | | d | e | c | o | m | p | o | s | e | r |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | c | a | r | n | i | v | o | r | e | |
| | | h | e | r | b | i | v | o | r | e | |
| p | l | a | n | t | | | | | | | |
| | l | i | g | h | t | | | | | | |
| s | u | n | | | | | | | | | |
