Tiger Facts: Stripes, Hunting and Why Tigers Are Endangered

The tiger is the largest wild cat in the world, and this puzzle describes it from nose to tail: its orange coat with black stripes, its powerful body, and its life as a solitary, territorial predator that hunts alone, mostly at night, in the jungles, forests and grasslands of Asia.

Endangered is the most important word in the list. Tigers once ranged from Turkey to the Russian Far East; today they live in a small fraction of that area. Territorial, at 11 letters, is the longest word and reads normally across the grid.

Tiger Vocabulary: 12 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down, and diagonally; 8 of the 12 read backwards. The longest word is Territorial, with 11 letters.

Black: The color of a tiger's stripes, which continue on the skin underneath the fur.
Endangered: Tigers are endangered: today they live in only a small fraction of the land they once covered across Asia.
Hunt: To chase and catch animals for food.
Jungle: Tigers live in many habitats in Asia, from tropical jungles to snowy forests and mangrove swamps.
Majestic: Grand, impressive and noble-looking.
Orange: The color of a tiger's coat, which helps it blend into tall grass and the shadows of the forest.
Powerful: Very strong. A tiger can bring down prey much bigger than itself.
Predator: An animal that hunts and eats other animals.
Solitary: Living alone. Tigers and leopards meet others of their kind only to mate or raise cubs.
Stripes: Long bands of color, like the black stripes of a tiger or a zebra.
Territorial: Defending an area against others of the same kind.
Tiger: The largest wild cat in the world, with orange fur and black stripes, found only in Asia.

How to Solve the Tiger Word Search

"Territorial" reads normally across, the longest word at 11 letters, and "endangered" runs straight down. "Jungle" and "majestic" both have a J: jungle is diagonal and majestic runs upward. Three words read backwards across the rows: hunt, orange and powerful.

Tiger Conservation Lesson Ideas

Find the countries where tigers still live on a map of Asia.
Ask students why tigers are endangered and what is being done to protect them.
Compare the tiger and the leopard: both are big cats, but one has stripes and the other rosettes.