Continents Word Search
Geographers usually count seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. Asia is the largest of them and holds more than half the world's people.
Continents word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- africa
- asia
- desert
- equator
- europe
- glacier
- iceberg
- island
- mountain
- ocean
Continents word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- africa
- antarctica
- asia
- australia
- desert
- equator
- europe
- glacier
- hemisphere
- iceberg
- island
- mountain
- north america
- ocean
- south america
Continents word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- africa
- amazon
- antarctica
- asia
- australia
- coastline
- desert
- equator
- europe
- glacier
- hemisphere
- iceberg
- island
- mountain
- north america
- ocean
- rainforest
- sahara
- savanna
- south america
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Words in the Continents word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- asia
- The largest continent, home to most of the world's people
- africa
- The second largest continent, crossed by the equator
- europe
- A continent west of Asia with many small countries
- island
- Land completely surrounded by water
- ocean
- A vast body of salt water between continents
- desert
- A very dry region with little rainfall
- equator
- The imaginary line circling Earth at its middle
- iceberg
- A floating chunk of ice broken from a glacier
- glacier
- A slow-moving river of ice on land
- mountain
- Land rising steeply high above the ground around it
- australia
- The smallest continent, and also a country
- antarctica
- The frozen southern continent with no permanent residents
- north america
- The continent holding Canada, the United States and Mexico
- south america
- The continent south of Panama, home to the Amazon
- hemisphere
- Half of the Earth, split north-south or east-west
- rainforest
- A dense wet forest with heavy year-round rainfall
- coastline
- The edge where land meets the sea
- savanna
- Grassland with scattered trees, common in Africa
- sahara
- The largest hot desert, across northern Africa
- amazon
- A South American river and the rainforest around it
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