How it works
This Alaska word search opens with Glacier, Tundra, Salmon, Moose, Sled, Husky and nine more favorites. Nine lists go deeper: towns, the map, glaciers and tundra, parks and trails, animals, plants, Alaska Native cultures, history and symbols, and the northern sky.
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Eleven state symbols, and why Gold is missing
Eleven official symbols are entries, each named as one in its clue: Forget-me-not, Ptarmigan, Sitka Spruce, Chinook, Moose, Bowhead, Malamute, Dragonfly, Jade, Woolly Mammoth and Mushing. Gold, the state mineral, is not: GOLD would already be hiding inside GOLDRUSH. The symbols follow the Alaska Statutes.
Ice words for an earth science unit
Alaska Glaciers and Tundra holds Moraine, Crevasse, Calving, Icefield, Fjord, Permafrost, Muskeg and Pingo, beside the glaciers Mendenhall, Hubbard, Malaspina and Portage. In clue mode Crevasse becomes a deep crack in the surface of a glacier.
- Easy Alaska has the 35 words of 3 to 5 letters, among them Nome, Sled, Moose, Orca, Lynx, Ulu and Kayak.
- Chicken is a real place. The story goes that its founders could not agree how to spell ptarmigan.
- Only letters go in the grid: Forget-me-not hides as FORGETMENOT and Gwich'in as GWICHIN.
Questions and answers
Is the Alaska word search free to print with an answer key?
Yes. Print or save as PDF puts the puzzle on one page with a Name and Date line and the answer key on the next. New puzzle draws another 15 of the favorites, so tables get different grids.
Is Denali or Mount McKinley in the puzzle?
Denali is, in the opening grid. Its clue gives both names: the highest mountain in North America, also called Mount McKinley, whose Koyukon name means the high one.
Are Alaska Native peoples in the word search?
Alaska Native Cultures names eleven peoples, among them Inupiat, Yupik, Unangan, Alutiiq, Tlingit, Haida and Athabascan, each clued by its homeland or way of life, beside words such as Umiak, Ulu, Kuspuk and Potlatch.
Is there an Alaska animals word search on this page?
Yes. Under Start from a list, Alaska Animals has 45: land animals such as Moose, Caribou, Lynx and Musk Ox, sea animals such as Orca, Walrus and Beluga, birds, and the salmon Chinook, Sockeye and Coho.