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Answer key: Magnetism Crossword

1WRA2P3SO4THU5MB6SLIA7PAPERCG8WIK9NEEDLEESO10RU11STTROU12TESTH

Across 1 WRAP · 4 THUMB · 7 PAPER · 9 NEEDLE · 10 RUST · 12 TEST

Down 2 POLE · 3 STICK · 5 MAGNET · 6 SAILOR · 8 WEST · 11 SOUTH

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Magnets and Poles 28

  • Attract Draw closer, as an N end and an S end do
  • Bar Shape of straight magnets, with N at one end and S at the other
  • Contact Touching; magnetism acts without it
  • Demagnetize Take the magnetism out of something
  • Dipole Pair of poles, one N and one S; all magnets are this
  • Domain Tiny region inside a material where the atoms' magnetism all points one way
  • Force Any push or pull; the magnetic kind works across a gap
  • Heat Enough of it takes magnetism away
  • Horseshoe Magnets of this shape are bent into a U, so both poles sit side by side
  • Hover Hang in the air, as one of a stacked pair does when N faces N
  • Invisible Word for magnetism, because it cannot be seen
  • Keeper Piece of soft steel laid across the poles in storage to save the magnetism
  • Like Word for poles of the same kind, which drive each other away
  • Lodestone Naturally magnetic rock, used in the earliest compasses
  • Magnet It clings to a steel door and picks up clips and nails
  • Magnetite Black mineral that natural magnets are pieces of
  • Magnetize Give magnetism to a piece of steel
  • North The N stamped on one end stands for this
  • Opposite Kind of poles that come together: one N and one S
  • Permanent Word for magnets that keep their magnetism for years
  • Pole Either of the places on magnets where magnetism is strongest
  • Repel Drive away, as N does to N
  • Ring Shape of magnets with a hole through the middle
  • Rub Doing this again and again to a metal rod with natural magnets can make the rod magnetic
  • South The S stamped on one end stands for this
  • Stick Cling, as magnets do to a steel door
  • Strength How hard magnets pull; it falls off quickly as things move apart
  • Temporary Word for magnetism that fades once its cause is taken away

Fields, Compasses and Earth 31

  • Arctic Icy northern region toward which a magnetized pointer swings
  • Aurora Glowing lights in polar skies, made when charged particles follow the planet's magnetism down
  • Bearing Direction to travel, read in degrees from a dial
  • Cardinal Word for the four main directions
  • Compass Direction finder with a magnetized pointer
  • Core Center of the planet; liquid moving in its outer part makes the planet's magnetism
  • Declination Angle between true and magnetic directions at a place
  • Earth Planet with magnetism of its own, made deep inside
  • East Direction of sunrise
  • Field Region around magnets in which magnetism acts
  • Filings Tiny shavings sprinkled around magnets to show the pattern
  • Flux Measure of the magnetism passing through a surface
  • Gauss Older unit of magnetism; the planet's is well under one at the surface
  • Geographic Word for the true top of the world, as opposed to the magnetic one
  • Jupiter Planet with the most powerful magnetism of any in the solar system
  • Lines Curves drawn from N to S that show the shape of magnetism
  • Loop Closed shape that every line of magnetism makes
  • Magnetosphere Region of space around a planet that its magnetism controls
  • Migrate Travel with the seasons, as birds that sense magnetism do
  • Navigate Find the way, as sailors long did with a magnetized pointer
  • Needle Thin magnetized pointer that swings freely
  • Pigeon Homing bird studied for its sense of the planet's magnetism
  • Pivot Point on which a pointer swings
  • Reversal Flip of the planet's magnetism, N for S, which has happened many times
  • Sailor Seagoing traveler who steered by a magnetized pointer
  • Shield What the planet's magnetism acts as, turning aside charged particles from space
  • Sunspot Dark, cooler patch on our star where magnetism is very strong
  • Tesla SI unit for measuring magnetism, written T
  • Turtle Sea reptile studied for finding its way across oceans by the planet's magnetism
  • Wander What the magnetic poles slowly do, moving a little every year
  • West Direction of sunset

Electricity and Magnetism 28

  • Ampere Unit of electric flow, named for a French physicist
  • Battery It supplies the electricity in a classroom experiment
  • Circuit Complete path for electricity
  • Coil Wire wound round and round
  • Current Electric charge on the move
  • Dynamo Small machine that makes electricity for a bicycle lamp
  • Electromagnet Magnets of this kind work only while electricity flows
  • Electron Tiny charged particle found in every atom
  • Faraday English scientist who found in 1831 that changing magnetism makes electricity flow
  • Fingers In the right-hand rule, they curl the way the magnetism circles the wire
  • Generator Machine that moves magnets and wire past each other to make electricity
  • Gilbert English doctor who wrote in 1600 that the whole planet is magnetic
  • Induction Making electricity flow in a wire by changing the magnetism near it
  • Levitate Float in the air with nothing underneath
  • Maxwell Scottish physicist whose equations joined electricity, magnetism and light
  • Motor Machine in which magnetism makes a shaft go round when electricity flows
  • Nail Pointed steel fastener, one of the things that magnets pick up
  • Oersted Danish scientist who saw electricity in a wire swing a nearby pointer in 1820
  • Rotor Part of an electric machine that spins
  • Solenoid Long, tube-shaped winding of wire
  • Spin Property of tiny particles that gives matter its magnetism
  • Stator Part of an electric machine that stays still
  • Switch It opens and closes the path of the electricity
  • Thumb In the right-hand rule, it points the way the electricity flows
  • Transformer Device that raises or lowers voltage with a pair of wire windings
  • Turbine Wheel spun by steam, air or water to drive a power plant's machines
  • Volt Unit of electric potential, named for an Italian physicist
  • Wrap Cover by going round and round, as wire does on a bolt

Magnetic or Not 24

  • Alloy Blend made by melting metals together
  • Alnico Material for magnets, named from three element symbols: Al, Ni and Co
  • Aluminum Lightweight foil and drink-can material that magnets do not pick up
  • Bismuth Heavy metal that magnets very weakly push away
  • Brass Yellow material of band instruments, which magnets do not pull
  • Cobalt Magnetic element known for a deep blue pigment
  • Copper Reddish metal used for wire, which magnets do not pull
  • Diamagnetic Word for materials that magnets very weakly push away
  • Ferrite Dark ceramic material of cheap, everyday magnets
  • Ferromagnetic Word for materials that magnets pull strongly
  • Gold Precious yellow metal that magnets do not pull
  • Iron Most familiar element that magnets pull; steel is mostly made of it
  • Neodymium Element in the strongest common magnets
  • Nickel Magnetic element that shares its name with a five-cent piece
  • Ore Rock from which metal is taken
  • Paper Thin sheet that magnets hold against a steel door
  • Paper clip Bent steel wire for holding sheets together, a favorite for testing magnets
  • Paramagnetic Word for materials that magnets pull only very weakly
  • Plastic Material of bottles and building bricks; magnets do not pull it
  • Rust Reddish-brown coating that forms on wet steel
  • Sort Put into groups, such as things magnets pull and things they do not
  • Staple Tiny steel fastener punched through sheets
  • Test Try something to find out what happens
  • Wood Material from trees; magnets do not pull it

Magnets at Work 22

  • Cassette Small case holding a reel of magnetic ribbon for music
  • Clasp Fastener on a bracelet or a necklace that may snap shut magnetically
  • Crane Machine that lifts junked cars with a plate that switches off to drop them
  • Data What a computer stores; on some drives, as tiny magnetic spots
  • Disk Hard ___: spinning platter that stores a computer's files magnetically
  • Doorbell Front-door ringer; in a common kind, switched magnetism drives the striker
  • Fan Machine whose blades are turned by magnetism inside
  • Headphones Pair of small sound makers worn on the ears, each with magnets inside
  • Lock Some electric ones hold a door shut with switched magnetism
  • Maglev Rail vehicle that floats above its track on magnetism
  • Microphone Device that turns sound into a signal; in one kind, a wire winding moves near magnets
  • MRI Hospital scan made with very strong magnetism; its M stands for magnetic
  • Pickup Part under an electric guitar's strings that changes their shaking into a signal
  • Recycling Where magnets lift steel cans out from the rest of the trash
  • Refrigerator Kitchen appliance whose door is a favorite place for small magnets that hold notes
  • Scrap Junk steel, sorted out with magnets
  • Screwdriver Tool that may have a magnetic tip, so small screws do not drop
  • Speaker Part of a radio in which a wire winding and magnets shake a cone to make sound
  • Stripe Band on one side of a bank card that holds its information magnetically
  • Tape Ribbon that stores sound magnetically
  • Telegraph Old message system that clicked out code with switched magnets
  • Toy Plaything; some kinds have small magnets inside

How this list was compiled: Clues written for this site for grade 3 to 8 science classes, in five sets: magnets and poles, fields, compasses and Earth, electricity and magnetism, what is magnetic and what is not, and magnets at work. Each clue was checked against English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA 4.0) in October 2026. In clues, N and S stand for north and south. No clue was copied from a published puzzle. Licence: own work

How it works

This printable magnetism crossword puzzle is a criss-cross vocabulary grid on Letter or A4. It opens on 12 easy words such as Magnet, Pole, Needle and South.

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Five sets, from Lodestone to Maglev

Magnets and Poles has Lodestone, Domain and Dipole. Fields, Compasses and Earth has Declination, Aurora and Magnetosphere. Electricity and Magnetism has Solenoid, Induction and Generator. Magnets at Work has Stripe, Pickup and Recycling.

A sorting list in Magnetic or Not

Iron, Nickel and Cobalt are clued as pulled; Copper, Aluminum, Gold and Brass as not. Let pupils test what the classroom has with a magnet first, then solve the set to check their sorting.

  • N and S stand for north and south in the clues, because North, South and Pole are answers.

Questions and answers

What grade is the magnetism crossword for?

Easy Magnet Words suits grades 3 to 5, with answers such as Iron, Compass and Battery. The five themed sets suit grades 6 to 8, with words such as Ferromagnetic and Induction. These bands are our judgement, not a published standard.

Does the magnetism crossword cover electromagnets?

Yes. Electricity and Magnetism has Electromagnet, Coil, Current, Motor and Transformer, and the right-hand rule in two clues. Four scientists are answers: Gilbert, Oersted, Faraday and Maxwell.

Is the printable magnetism crossword puzzle free, with an answer key?

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