Hard sea life word search
The southern right whale, the yellow-eyed penguin and a sunfish drifting past: twenty-eight sea creatures of Aotearoa in an eighteen by eighteen grid. Words run in all eight directions, backwards included.
- Albatross
- Anemone
- Blue penguin
- Bryde's whale
- Crayfish
- Dusky dolphin
- Fur seal
- Gannet
- Great white
- Hector's dolphin
- Humpback
- Jellyfish
- Kahawai
- Kelp
- Kina
- Leopard seal
- Octopus
- Orca
- Pāua
- Sea cucumber
- Seahorse
- Snapper
- Southern right whale
- Sperm whale
- Starfish
- Stingray
- Sunfish
- Yellow-eyed penguin
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- Albatross
- Anemone
- Blue penguin
- Bryde's whale
- Crayfish
- Dusky dolphin
- Fur seal
- Gannet
- Great white
- Hector's dolphin
- Humpback
- Jellyfish
- Kahawai
- Kelp
- Kina
- Leopard seal
- Octopus
- Orca
- Pāua
- Sea cucumber
- Seahorse
- Snapper
- Southern right whale
- Sperm whale
- Starfish
- Stingray
- Sunfish
- Yellow-eyed penguin
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About this word search
New Zealand waters host a remarkable range of marine life. Southern right whales, once hunted almost to extinction here, are slowly returning to the mainland coast. The yellow-eyed penguin, or hoiho, is one of the rarest penguins in the world, and Bryde's whales feed in the Hauraki Gulf. Kahawai and snapper are favourites of anyone with a rod, and leopard seals sometimes turn up from Antarctic waters.
The grid is eighteen by eighteen and the words can run in all eight directions, backwards included. Southern right whale is the longest at eighteen letters, so it stretches the full width of the board as SOUTHERNRIGHTWHALE. Yellow-eyed penguin has seventeen and Hector's dolphin fourteen. Orca, pāua, kina and kelp are the four-letter words that hide best. Three names end in WHALE and two in DOLPHIN, so check which one you have found.
This sheet makes a good companion to a trip to an aquarium or a whale watching tour. Afterwards, see who can find every mammal on the list, and remember that the orca is really the largest member of the dolphin family.
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