Nevada Word Search
Nevada is the driest state in the country and goes by the Silver State for its mining history. Most of it lies within a dry region called the Great Basin.
Nevada word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- cactus
- canyon
- desert
- gold
- hoover dam
- lake tahoe
- las vegas
- reno
- sagebrush
- silver
Nevada word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- bristlecone
- cactus
- canyon
- carson city
- coyote
- desert
- ghost town
- gold
- hoover dam
- lake tahoe
- las vegas
- mustang
- reno
- sagebrush
- silver
Nevada word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- bluebird
- bristlecone
- cactus
- canyon
- carson city
- coyote
- desert
- ghost town
- gold
- great basin
- hoover dam
- hot spring
- lake tahoe
- las vegas
- mining
- mustang
- reno
- sagebrush
- salt flat
- silver
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Words in the Nevada word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- desert
- Dry land with little rain, covering most of Nevada
- gold
- A yellow metal; Nevada leads the nation in mining it
- silver
- The metal behind Nevada's nickname, the Silver State
- las vegas
- Nevada's largest city, known for its bright resorts
- reno
- A city in western Nevada near the Sierra Nevada
- canyon
- A deep valley with steep rock walls
- sagebrush
- The state flower, a gray-green shrub of dry ground
- cactus
- A spiny desert plant that stores water in its stem
- lake tahoe
- A deep blue lake shared by Nevada and California
- hoover dam
- A huge concrete dam on the Colorado River
- mustang
- A free-roaming horse of the Nevada range
- carson city
- The capital of Nevada
- bristlecone
- An ancient pine that grows on high Nevada peaks
- coyote
- A wild dog of the desert that howls at night
- ghost town
- An abandoned settlement left when the mines closed
- mining
- Digging ore from the ground, a key Nevada industry
- hot spring
- Water heated underground that bubbles to the surface
- bluebird
- The state bird, the mountain bluebird, bright blue above
- great basin
- The dry region where rivers never reach the sea
- salt flat
- A bare white plain left behind by a dried lake
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