Volcanoes word search
Ruapehu steaming, Rangitoto on the Auckland skyline and mud pools bubbling in Rotorua. Twenty words from a country that sits on the edge of two tectonic plates.
- Ash
- Crater
- Eruption
- Fumarole
- Geyser
- Hot spring
- Lava
- Magma
- Mud pool
- Ngāuruhoe
- Pumice
- Rangitoto
- Rotorua
- Ruapehu
- Sulphur
- Taranaki
- Taupō
- Tongariro
- Volcano
- Whakaari
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Make your own versionVolcanoes and geysers
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| O | P | F | U | M | A | R | O | L | E | A | O | R | R |
| V | L | U | A | R | A | N | G | I | T | O | T | O | M |
| O | T | I | M | E | E | R | O | T | O | R | U | A | H |
| L | H | W | M | I | G | M | H | U | N | S | I | T | H |
| C | O | H | N | A | C | F | H | R | G | K | L | C | H |
| A | T | A | S | H | G | E | N | Y | A | E | M | R | H |
| N | S | K | P | O | P | M | V | N | R | R | U | A | T |
| O | P | A | L | A | V | A | A | G | I | U | D | T | H |
| O | R | A | U | T | C | R | U | E | R | P | P | E | I |
| I | I | R | K | D | A | A | D | Y | O | T | O | R | L |
| L | N | I | A | T | Y | N | H | S | N | I | O | H | E |
| N | G | A | U | R | U | H | O | E | P | O | L | D | E |
| T | A | U | P | O | C | I | O | R | E | N | F | R | U |
Find these words
- Ash
- Crater
- Eruption
- Fumarole
- Geyser
- Hot spring
- Lava
- Magma
- Mud pool
- Ngāuruhoe
- Pumice
- Rangitoto
- Rotorua
- Ruapehu
- Sulphur
- Taranaki
- Taupō
- Tongariro
- Volcano
- Whakaari
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About this word search
New Zealand sits on the boundary between the Australian and Pacific plates, and it shows. Ruapehu, Ngāuruhoe and Tongariro rise from the Central Plateau, Rangitoto has stood in the Hauraki Gulf for about six hundred years, and Lake Taupō fills a caldera left by enormous eruptions. In Rotorua you can smell the sulphur as soon as you arrive.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen and words run across, down and diagonally, never backwards. Hot spring, Tongariro, Ngāuruhoe and Rangitoto are the longest with nine letters each. Ash has only three and Lava four, so they hide easily. Macrons drop out in the grid: Ngāuruhoe becomes NGAURUHOE and Taupō becomes TAUPO. Look for the K in Whakaari and Taranaki and the F in Fumarole. Hot spring and Mud pool run together without a space.
Find all the place names on a map of the North Island and mark the volcanoes in red. Then ask which one is closest to home, or which one the children have seen with their own eyes.
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