Mountains word search, free printable with pictures
Everest, Fuji, Vesuvius, Uluru and six more of the world’s famous mountains hidden in a 12 by 12 grid, with a drawing of each to colour. Page two has the answers and one short fact for every mountain, with the page it comes from.
Two pages in each file: A4 63 kB, US Letter 63 kB. Free, with no account and no email address.
The words
The ten mountains in the grid, with a fact for each.
EVERESTMount Everest
Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made the first documented climb of Everest, in 1953.
MATTERHORN
The Matterhorn has four faces, each turned roughly north, south, east or west.
FUJIMount Fuji
Mount Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan, is an active volcano that last erupted in 1707 and 1708.
ETNAMount Etna
Mount Etna in Sicily is one of the world's most active volcanoes, in an almost constant state of activity.
ELBRUSMount Elbrus
Elbrus, the highest mountain in Russia and Europe, is a dormant volcano with two summits.
DENALI
Denali, the highest peak in North America, takes its name from a Koyukon word for high or tall.
ACONCAGUA
Aconcagua, in the Andes of Argentina, is the highest mountain outside Asia, about 6,967 m high.
OLYMPUSMount Olympus
Mount Olympus is the highest mountain in Greece and, in Greek myth, the home of the gods.
ULURU
Uluru, a sandstone rock in central Australia, seems to change colour and glows red at dawn and sunset.
VESUVIUSMount Vesuvius
The eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
For teachers and parents
What is on the sheet, and how to use it.
- Grid
- 12 by 12 letters
- Names
- Ten to find, 4 to 10 letters long
- Directions
- across, down and diagonally, always forwards
- Pages
- the puzzle, then the answers with ten facts
- Paper
- A4 or US Letter; page 1 is line art and needs no colour printer
Who it suits. Our suggestion is children who already read short words on their own, roughly ages 7 to 11. Younger children can colour the drawings while an adult reads the names aloud. This is our suggestion, not a tested reading level.
How long it takes. We have not timed it with a class. The grid on its own is a short activity; the colouring and the facts on page 2 can stretch it to fill a lesson.
The grid has one word per name; where the full name is longer, the list on the sheet shows it under the word, for example EVEREST for Mount Everest.
In class or at home
- Print page 1 for each child, and page 2 once, for yourself or to share at the end.
- Read the names aloud and look at the drawings together before starting.
- Each child ticks a name in the list when it is found, then colours the drawings.
- Finish with page 2: read a fact or two aloud. Each fact names its Wikipedia page, so older children can look it up and read more.
Questions
Questions about this word search.
Is this mountains word search free to print?
Yes. Both PDF files, A4 and US Letter, are free to download and print, with no account and no email address.
Where are the answers?
On page 2 of the same PDF: the grid with every name circled, the drawings in colour, and one short fact for each mountain with the Wikipedia page it comes from. Print only page 1 if you want to keep the answers for later.
Which way do the words go?
Across, down and diagonally, always forwards, never backwards. Each of the ten names is in the grid exactly once; our program checks that before the file is made, and also checks that no rude word turns up among the filler letters.
Should I print A4 or US Letter?
Pick the paper in your printer: US Letter in the United States and Canada, A4 in most other countries. In the print dialog choose actual size or 100%.
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