Arkansas Word Search
Arkansas is the only state where the public can dig for diamonds and keep what they find. It joined the United States in 1836, and rice fields, hot springs and the Ozark hills cover much of the rest.
Arkansas word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- bear
- catfish
- cotton
- delta
- diamond
- duck
- pine
- quartz
- rice
- river
Arkansas word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- bauxite
- bear
- catfish
- cotton
- delta
- diamond
- duck
- honeybee
- ozarks
- pine
- quartz
- razorback
- rice
- river
- soybean
Arkansas word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- bauxite
- bear
- catfish
- cotton
- delta
- diamond
- duck
- fort smith
- honeybee
- hot springs
- little rock
- mockingbird
- ozarks
- pine
- quartz
- razorback
- rice
- river
- soybean
- white river
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Words in the Arkansas word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- river
- The Arkansas River crosses the state and joins the Mississippi.
- rice
- Arkansas grows more rice than any other US state.
- duck
- Flooded Arkansas timber draws wintering mallards and many duck hunters.
- pine
- Southern Arkansas holds wide pine forests cut for lumber.
- bear
- Black bears live in the Ozark and Ouachita forests.
- cotton
- A row crop grown on the flat farmland of eastern Arkansas.
- delta
- The flat, fertile lowland along eastern Arkansas near the river.
- catfish
- A bottom-feeding fish raised in ponds and caught in rivers.
- diamond
- Visitors can dig for real diamonds at an Arkansas state park.
- quartz
- Clear six-sided crystals mined in the Ouachita Mountains.
- ozarks
- A hilly, forested highland covering much of northern Arkansas.
- soybean
- A bean crop grown widely on eastern Arkansas farms.
- bauxite
- An aluminum ore once mined heavily in central Arkansas.
- honeybee
- Arkansas's state insect, kept in hives for honey and pollination.
- razorback
- A lean wild hog, and the state university's team name.
- little rock
- Arkansas's capital and largest city, on the Arkansas River.
- hot springs
- A town where warm mineral water rises from the ground.
- fort smith
- A city on the Oklahoma border, once a frontier army post.
- white river
- An Ozark river known for clear water and trout fishing.
- mockingbird
- Arkansas's state bird, a gray singer that copies other calls.
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