Sagarmatha Word Search
This Sagarmatha word search hides 12 words on a 15×15 grid — its landforms, its wildlife, and the habitats inside it. Trace each one with a finger or mouse and it locks in as soon as the whole word is covered. No signup, no download.
Words to find: EVEREST, SAGARMATHA, KHUMBU, GOKYO, IMJA, DUDHKOSHI, LHOTSE, NUPTSE, PUMORI, GLACIER, MORAINE, CIRQUE.
Words run in any of eight directions, backwards included — if one refuses to turn up, try reading the grid right to left.
Sagarmatha word list, defined
- GLACIER /ˈɡleɪsiər/ · noun
- A large, slowly moving river of ice formed from compacted snow on land, typically in high latitudes or at high elevations. A glacier can be several kilometers wide and hundreds of meters thick. Related: ice sheet, ice field, frost, ice cap.
- MORAINE /mɔːˈreɪn/ · noun
- A ridge of rock or soil deposited by a glacier, typically in a curved or sinuous shape. A moraine can also refer to a ridge of soil or rock formed by the action of the sea or a river. Related: ridge, bank, bar, esker.
- CIRQUE /sɜːrk/ · noun
- A steep-walled, bowl-shaped hollow or amphitheater at the head of a mountain valley, formed by glacial erosion; also, in older usage borrowed from French, a circular arena such as that of a Roman circus. Related: corrie, cwm, amphitheater, hollow.
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