Hard volcanoes word search
Whakarewarewa, Maungawhau, tephra and lahar: twenty-eight volcanic words in an eighteen by eighteen grid, backwards and diagonal included. For older kids and adults who know their caldera from their crater.
- Ash
- Caldera
- Crater
- Eruption
- Fumarole
- Geyser
- Hot spring
- Lahar
- Lava
- Magma
- Maungawhau
- Mud pool
- Ngāuruhoe
- Obsidian
- Pōhutu
- Pumice
- Rangitoto
- Rotorua
- Ruapehu
- Sulphur
- Taranaki
- Taupō
- Tectonic plate
- Tephra
- Tongariro
- Volcano
- Whakaari
- Whakarewarewa
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Make your own versionVolcanoes and geysers, extra hard
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| A | R | E | D | L | A | C | B | L | S | D | I | T | B | D | N | H | W |
| B | M | W | K | C | O | I | O | O | E | G | A | T | A | U | E | V | A |
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Find these words
- Ash
- Caldera
- Crater
- Eruption
- Fumarole
- Geyser
- Hot spring
- Lahar
- Lava
- Magma
- Maungawhau
- Mud pool
- Ngāuruhoe
- Obsidian
- Pōhutu
- Pumice
- Rangitoto
- Rotorua
- Ruapehu
- Sulphur
- Taranaki
- Taupō
- Tectonic plate
- Tephra
- Tongariro
- Volcano
- Whakaari
- Whakarewarewa
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About this word search
Rotorua's Whakarewarewa valley is home to Pōhutu, often called the largest active geyser in the southern hemisphere. In Auckland, volcanic cones like Maungawhau, also known as Mount Eden, sit among the houses, and Māori used obsidian, a black volcanic glass, to make sharp cutting tools.
The grid is eighteen by eighteen and words run in all eight directions, backwards included. Whakarewarewa and Tectonic plate are the longest with thirteen letters, followed by Maungawhau with ten. Ash has only three letters and Lava four. Macrons drop out, so Pōhutu is POHUTU and Ngāuruhoe is NGAURUHOE. Whakarewarewa and Whakaari both start with WHAKA, so check the rest. Look for the F in Fumarole, the B in Obsidian and the double A in Whakaari.
Use it as a quiz for older students: explain the difference between a caldera and a crater, or between a lahar and lava, and point to each named volcano on a map. Ruapehu and Taranaki make good starting points.
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