Geography Word Search
This geography word search holds forty words from the subject: the five themes of location, place, region, movement and human interaction with the land, along with population, climate, the biome, the watershed and the time zone.
Geography teachers in the United States often build the subject around those five themes, set out in 1984 by the National Council for Geographic Education and the Association of American Geographers. Absolute location is an exact address or a pair of coordinates, while relative location describes a spot by what is near it, like a town two hours north of the capital. Place is what a location is like, and a region groups places that share something, such as a language, a climate or a crop.
The word geography means writing about the Earth, and it is credited to Eratosthenes, a Greek scholar who ran the library at Alexandria. Around 240 BC he worked out the size of the planet from the angle of the noon sun's shadows in two Egyptian cities, and came close. Time zones are much younger. Before 1883 most American towns kept their own local time, and on November 18 of that year the railroads switched the country to four standard zones.
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Geography Word Search Printable Puzzles
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Hard
15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
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12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
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10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Geography has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Absolute
- Agriculture
- Biome
- Cartography
- Climate
- Country
- Delta
- Density
- Desert
- Diffusion
- Earthquake
- Ecosystem
- Equator
- Erosion
- Geographer
- Glacier
- Interaction
- Island
- Landform
- Location
- Megacity
- Migration
- Monsoon
- Mountain
- Movement
- Peninsula
- Place
- Plateau
- Population
- Rainfall
- Region
- Relative
- River
- Rural
- Satellite
- Time Zone
- Tropics
- Urban
- Volcano
- Watershed