Science word search
Rutherford and the atom, the Alpine Fault and the seismographs that never sleep. Twenty science words from the lab to the shaky ground under our feet.
- Alpine Fault
- Atom
- Beaker
- Earthquake
- Electron
- Experiment
- Genetics
- GeoNet
- Geothermal
- Gravity
- Lab
- Microscope
- Molecule
- Neutron
- Nucleus
- Pipette
- Plate tectonics
- Proton
- Rutherford
- Seismograph
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Name
| F | R | L | G | E | X | P | E | R | I | M | E | N | T |
| L | U | A | R | E | S | L | G | R | O | I | A | E | P |
| E | T | B | A | M | O | A | P | T | T | E | L | U | R |
| G | H | M | V | S | I | T | A | E | M | I | P | T | O |
| E | E | O | I | E | A | E | H | L | I | P | I | R | T |
| N | R | L | T | A | U | T | E | E | C | U | N | O | O |
| E | F | E | Y | R | G | E | P | C | R | T | E | N | N |
| T | O | C | F | T | E | C | I | T | O | M | F | A | U |
| I | R | U | R | H | O | T | P | R | S | B | A | N | C |
| C | D | L | L | Q | N | O | E | O | C | E | U | L | L |
| S | I | E | U | U | E | N | T | N | O | A | L | U | E |
| O | A | S | L | A | T | I | T | D | P | K | T | G | U |
| E | P | H | E | K | E | C | E | T | E | E | A | T | S |
| O | T | H | S | E | I | S | M | O | G | R | A | P | H |
Find these words
- Alpine Fault
- Atom
- Beaker
- Earthquake
- Electron
- Experiment
- Genetics
- GeoNet
- Geothermal
- Gravity
- Lab
- Microscope
- Molecule
- Neutron
- Nucleus
- Pipette
- Plate tectonics
- Proton
- Rutherford
- Seismograph
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About this word search
Ernest Rutherford, born near Nelson in 1871, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 and later showed that an atom has a tiny, dense nucleus. His face is on the hundred dollar note. Science here also means the ground under your feet: the Alpine Fault runs along the South Island where the Australian and Pacific plates meet, and Wairākei, opened in 1958, was only the second geothermal power station in the world.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen and words run across, down and diagonally, never backwards. Plate tectonics fills a whole row with fourteen letters. Alpine Fault and Seismograph have eleven. Lab is the shortest at three letters and Atom has four. GeoNet, the network that watches over New Zealand's earthquakes and volcanoes, has six, like Proton and Beaker. The Q appears only in Earthquake and the X only in Experiment. Pipette has two P's and a double T. Plate tectonics and Alpine Fault run together as PLATETECTONICS and ALPINEFAULT.
A good starter for a science class: everyone finds the words, then each student explains one of them to the rest of the room in a single sentence.
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