Hard science word search
Beatrice Tinsley, Maurice Wilkins and Alan MacDiarmid next to radioactivity, liquefaction and the Alpine Fault. Twenty-eight words in an eighteen by eighteen grid, hidden in all eight directions. For science teachers and the endlessly curious.
- Alan MacDiarmid
- Alpine Fault
- Beaker
- Beatrice Tinsley
- Earthquake
- Electron
- Genome
- GeoNet
- Geothermal
- Gravity
- Hypothesis
- Isotope
- Lab
- Liquefaction
- Maurice Wilkins
- Microscope
- Molecule
- Neutron
- Nucleus
- Pipette
- Plate tectonics
- Proton
- Radioactivity
- Rutherford
- Seismograph
- Spectroscope
- Subduction
- William Pickering
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
Make your own versionScience, extra hard
Name
| E | S | P | E | C | T | R | O | S | C | O | P | E | U | Y | N | I | H |
| G | F | H | D | S | N | U | C | L | E | U | S | N | T | E | O | E | D |
| E | G | N | I | R | E | K | C | I | P | M | A | I | L | L | I | W | G |
| S | T | O | P | A | A | H | D | B | O | I | S | P | U | S | T | N | E |
| I | L | I | R | D | A | O | D | M | T | C | E | L | A | N | C | G | O |
| G | P | T | O | I | L | M | R | A | O | R | I | A | F | I | A | R | T |
| E | E | C | T | O | A | U | O | U | S | O | S | T | E | T | F | A | H |
| N | K | U | O | A | N | O | F | R | I | S | M | E | N | E | E | V | E |
| O | A | D | N | C | M | Y | R | I | M | C | O | T | I | C | U | I | R |
| M | U | B | T | T | A | N | E | C | O | O | G | E | P | I | Q | T | M |
| E | Q | U | E | I | C | N | H | E | L | P | R | C | L | R | I | Y | A |
| T | H | S | N | V | D | O | T | W | E | E | A | T | A | T | L | O | L |
| T | T | R | O | I | I | R | U | I | C | R | P | O | L | A | N | O | E |
| E | R | E | E | T | A | T | R | L | U | O | H | N | O | E | L | A | B |
| P | A | K | G | Y | R | U | E | K | L | U | G | I | E | B | D | I | O |
| I | E | A | B | E | M | E | Y | I | E | L | E | C | T | R | O | N | T |
| P | I | E | H | E | I | N | O | N | W | L | A | S | A | R | A | L | F |
| E | L | B | H | N | D | N | A | S | I | S | E | H | T | O | P | Y | H |
Find these words
- Alan MacDiarmid
- Alpine Fault
- Beaker
- Beatrice Tinsley
- Earthquake
- Electron
- Genome
- GeoNet
- Geothermal
- Gravity
- Hypothesis
- Isotope
- Lab
- Liquefaction
- Maurice Wilkins
- Microscope
- Molecule
- Neutron
- Nucleus
- Pipette
- Plate tectonics
- Proton
- Radioactivity
- Rutherford
- Seismograph
- Spectroscope
- Subduction
- William Pickering
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About this word search
Maurice Wilkins, born in Pongaroa, shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on the structure of DNA. Alan MacDiarmid from Masterton shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for plastics that conduct electricity. Beatrice Tinsley studied how galaxies change over time, and William Pickering, born in Wellington, led NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory during its early missions. After the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, liquefaction became a word every Kiwi knows.
Eighteen by eighteen, in all eight directions. William Pickering is the longest at sixteen letters, then Beatrice Tinsley at fifteen. Lab is the shortest at three letters, and Proton, GeoNet, Beaker and Genome have six. Alan MacDiarmid is written as ALANMACDIARMID. The Q shows up only in Earthquake and Liquefaction, and the X nowhere at all, so the two P's and double T of Pipette are another good place to get your bearings.
For a senior science class or a curious household: after finding the words, pair each scientist with what they discovered or built.
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