Earth Day Words

Enjoy this collection of over 160 Earth Day words from A-Z.

Earth Day Words from A – Z

Here is a list of Earth Day vocabulary in alphabetical order:

A

• acid rain
• action
• activist
• air
• animals
• April (22nd)
• atmosphere

B

• bags
• batteries
• bees
• bicycle
• bin
• biodegradable
• biodiversity
• bottles
• boxes
• brown
• buy local

C

• cans
• carbon dioxide (CO2)
• carbon emission
• carbon footprint
• cardboard
• car pool
• chemicals
• clean
• cleanup
• climate (change / crisis / activist / education / and environmental literacy)
• clothes
• coal
• collective action
• compost
• conservation
• conserve

D

• day
• decompose
• deforestation
• disposable
• disposal
• dirt
• dump

E

• Earth
• Earth Day
• eco-friendly
• ecology
• ecosystem
• education
• electricity
• electric vehicle
• emissions
• empty
• endangered species
• energy
• environment
• erode
• exhaust
• extinction

F

• faucet
• flowers
• food (systems)
• foodprint
• footprint (carbon)
• forests
• fossil fuels

G

• garbage
• gardening
• glass
• global
• global warming
• grass
• green
• greenhouse effect
• greenhouse gases

H

• habitat
• help
• home

I

• incineration (a place where garbage is burnt)
• insects
• invest

J

• jars (often recyclable)
• jet stream
• jog
• join (a cleanup)
• junk

K

• Keeling Curve (a video to explain what the Keeling Curve is)

L

• lakes
• land
• landfill
• lights
• litter

M

• metal
• methane (a greenhouse gas)
• microplastics
• Mother Earth

N

• nature
• natural resource
• newspaper
• nonrenewable

O

• ocean
• oil
• organic
• oxygen
• ozone (layer)

P

• paper
• people
• pesticides
• planet
• plant
• plant based diet
• plastic
• Polar icecap
• pollinator
• pollute
• polluted
• pollution
• preservation
• preserve
• process
• protect
• public transportation

R

• recycle
• recycling bin
• reduce
• reforestation
• regenerative agriculture
• renewable
• resource
• restoration
• reusable
• reuse
• rivers

S

• save
• seeds
• single-use plastics
• smog
• soil
• solar (energy / panel / power)
• sort
• spring
• streams
• sun
• sustainable (sustainability)
• sustainable fashion

T

• The Canopy Project (a project to plant trees globally)
• together
• trash
• trees

U

• united
• urgent

V

• volunteer

W

• walk
• warming
• waste
• water
• wildlife
• wind energy (or wind power)
• world
• worms

X

• xeriscape (a landscaping method with the goal of conserving water)

Y

• year-round
• you
• youth

Z

• zero emission

Can you think of anymore Earth Day words? Share them in the comments.

Earth Day Spelling Words

Here are some of the Earth Day words grouped by the year kids learn to spell them.

Grade 1 Earth Day Words

The 1st grade words kids will learn to spell:

• bags
• bin
• cans
• day
• people
• seeds
• water

Grade 2 Earth Day Words

And Earth Day spelling words for a second grader:

• air
• bus
• car pool
• glass
• green
• lights
• planet
• trees
• wind
• world
• worm

Grade 3 Earth Day Words

The Earth Day themed third grade spelling words:

• animals
• boxes
• clean
• dirt
• energy
• forest
• garden
• paper
• plant
• soil
• solar
• walk
• warming

Grade 4 Earth Day Words

In 4th grade, kids learn to spell:

• bees
• bottles
• flowers
• footprint
• insects
• ocean
• oil
• pollinator

Grade 5 Earth Day Words

The Earth Day fifth grade spelling words include:

• April
• batteries
• chemical
• compost
• decompose
• Earth
• electricity
• extinct
• garbage
• public transportation
• volunteer

Kids can practice spelling these words with a fun printable Earth Day crossword puzzle.

Grade 6 Earth Day Spelling Words

One of the weekly themes in our grade 6 spelling lists is “Earth Day”. Here are the 6th grade spelling words for that week:

1. biodegradable
2. conservation
3. disposable
4. disposal
5. ecology
6. empty
7. environment
8. metal
9. plastic
10. pollute
11. pollution
12. process
13. recycle
14. reduce
15. reusable
16. waste

And there are a few Earth Day terms that were learned in other weeks of 6th grade:

• endangered
• extinction
• protection

Earth Day Word Puzzles and Activities

Here are some fun printable Earth Day activities and word puzzles that use many of these Earth Day vocabulary words:

• Earth Day word games for early elementary students
• easy Earth Day word search for students
• a medium to hard word search for 6th grade and older
• a fill in word puzzle with 35 Earth Day words to fit in the puzzle