Iowa Word Search
Corn and hogs put Iowa ahead of every other state in both counts. The land sits between the Mississippi River on the east and the Missouri River on the west, with farming towns and cities in between.
Iowa word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- barn
- corn
- farm
- field
- hawkeye
- pig
- prairie
- river
- soybean
- tractor
Iowa word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- barn
- cedar rapids
- corn
- des moines
- farm
- field
- hawkeye
- mississippi
- missouri river
- pig
- prairie
- river
- soybean
- tractor
- wild rose
Iowa word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- barn
- cedar rapids
- corn
- cornfield
- des moines
- dubuque
- farm
- field
- goldfinch
- hawkeye
- mississippi
- missouri river
- oak tree
- pig
- prairie
- river
- silo
- soybean
- tractor
- wild rose
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Words in the Iowa word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- corn
- Iowa's top crop, with more acres planted than any state
- farm
- Farms cover roughly ninety percent of Iowa's land
- pig
- Iowa raises more hogs than any other state
- tractor
- A farm machine used for plowing, planting and hauling
- barn
- A farm building for storing crops and sheltering animals
- prairie
- Tall grass prairie once covered nearly all of Iowa
- river
- Iowa lies between two of the country's largest rivers
- soybean
- Iowa's second biggest crop, used for oil and feed
- field
- Flat open land planted with a single crop
- hawkeye
- Iowa's nickname is the Hawkeye State
- des moines
- Iowa's capital and largest city, in the center
- cedar rapids
- An eastern Iowa city on the Cedar River
- mississippi
- The great river forming Iowa's eastern border
- missouri river
- Forms most of Iowa's western border
- wild rose
- The wild prairie rose is Iowa's state flower
- oak tree
- The oak is Iowa's state tree, found in its woodlands
- goldfinch
- The eastern goldfinch is the state bird of Iowa
- silo
- A tall farm tower that stores grain or animal feed
- cornfield
- A planted field of corn, a common Iowa sight
- dubuque
- Iowa's oldest city, on the Mississippi in the northeast
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