Montana Word Search
Montana is the fourth largest state by land area but has fewer than a million and a half people. Its name comes from a Spanish word for mountain.
Montana word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- big sky
- bison
- elk
- glacier
- helena
- mountain
- ranch
- sapphire
- trout
- wheat
Montana word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- big sky
- bison
- bitterroot
- cowboy
- dinosaur bone
- elk
- glacier
- grizzly bear
- helena
- mountain
- ranch
- sapphire
- trout
- wheat
- yellowstone
Montana word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- big sky
- bison
- bitterroot
- copper
- cowboy
- dinosaur bone
- elk
- glacier
- grizzly bear
- helena
- meadowlark
- mountain
- prairie
- ranch
- rodeo
- sapphire
- snowfall
- trout
- wheat
- yellowstone
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Words in the Montana word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- mountain
- Montana's name comes from a Spanish word meaning mountain
- bison
- Large shaggy plains animal once hunted across Montana
- glacier
- A slow river of ice; also a national park in the state
- ranch
- A large farm where cattle and horses are raised
- helena
- The capital city of Montana
- grizzly bear
- A big brown bear living in Montana's mountains
- wheat
- Montana's leading crop, grown on wide dry plains
- big sky
- Montana's nickname, for its wide open views
- elk
- A large deer with branching antlers, common in the state
- trout
- A cold-water fish caught in Montana's clear rivers
- sapphire
- A blue gemstone mined in western Montana
- cowboy
- A ranch worker who tends cattle on horseback
- yellowstone
- A Montana river, and a national park partly in the state
- bitterroot
- The state flower, a low pink bloom of dry ground
- dinosaur bone
- Fossils found in Montana rock, including T. rex remains
- copper
- A reddish metal mined heavily near Butte
- prairie
- Flat grassland covering the eastern half of the state
- meadowlark
- The state bird, a yellow-breasted singer of open fields
- snowfall
- Heavy winter snow common in the Montana mountains
- rodeo
- A contest of riding and roping skills
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