Hard dinosaurs word search
Joan Wiffen, the Mangahouanga valley and the sea reptiles of ancient Zealandia join the big names from the textbooks. Twenty-eight words in an eighteen by eighteen grid, in all eight directions.
- Ankylosaurus
- Asteroid
- Brachiosaurus
- Carnivore
- Claws
- Cretaceous
- Diplodocus
- Extinct
- Footprint
- Fossil
- Gondwana
- Herbivore
- Joan Wiffen
- Jurassic
- Mangahouanga
- Mosasaur
- Palaeontologist
- Plesiosaur
- Pterosaur
- Sauropod
- Skeleton
- Spinosaurus
- Stegosaurus
- Theropod
- Triceratops
- Tyrannosaurus
- Velociraptor
- Zealandia
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| Z | E | A | L | A | N | D | I | A | N | A | W | D | N | O | G | A | D |
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- Ankylosaurus
- Asteroid
- Brachiosaurus
- Carnivore
- Claws
- Cretaceous
- Diplodocus
- Extinct
- Footprint
- Fossil
- Gondwana
- Herbivore
- Joan Wiffen
- Jurassic
- Mangahouanga
- Mosasaur
- Palaeontologist
- Plesiosaur
- Pterosaur
- Sauropod
- Skeleton
- Spinosaurus
- Stegosaurus
- Theropod
- Triceratops
- Tyrannosaurus
- Velociraptor
- Zealandia
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Joan Wiffen found New Zealand's first dinosaur fossil in 1975 in the Mangahouanga valley in northern Hawke's Bay, a bone from the tail of a meat-eating theropod. She and her team also found the remains of marine reptiles, including mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. At the time, Zealandia was breaking away from the supercontinent Gondwana, and most of it now lies under the sea.
The grid is eighteen by eighteen and the words go in all eight directions, backwards included. Palaeontologist is the longest at fifteen letters, with the British AE in the middle. Tyrannosaurus and brachiosaurus have thirteen, and Mangahouanga, velociraptor and ankylosaurus twelve. Claws is the shortest at five letters. Joan Wiffen is written JOANWIFFEN, and theropod and sauropod share the ending OPOD, so look twice.
This sheet suits a science or history lesson. Ask older children to find out what Joan Wiffen did for a living before she became famous for her fossils, and why her finds changed what scientists thought about New Zealand.
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