Shark Bay Word Search
A free Shark Bay word search you can play straight in the browser. The 12-word list draws on its architecture, its landscape, and the people who built it, hidden across a 15×15 grid in every direction. Drag through the letters to mark a word off.
Words to find: STROMATOLITE, HAMELINPOOL, MONKEYMIA, DOLPHIN, DUGONG, TURTLE, COQUINA, CALCARENITE, LIMESTONE, SANDSTONE, DUNES, SEAGRASS.
Words run in any of eight directions, backwards included — if one refuses to turn up, try reading the grid right to left.
Shark Bay word list, defined
- DOLPHIN /ˈdɒlfɪn/ (British); /ˈdɑːlfɪn/ (US) · noun
- A highly intelligent marine mammal of the family Delphinidae, having a streamlined body, a beaklike snout, and a dorsal fin, known for its playful behaviour and social nature. The word can also refer to certain large food fish (the mahi-mahi, or dolphinfish) unrelated to the mammal. Related: porpoise.
- DUGONG /ˈduːɡɒŋ/ · noun
- A large herbivorous marine mammal of warm coastal waters of the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, related to the manatee and feeding on seagrass. Related: sea cow, sirenian.
- TURTLE /ˈtɜːr.təl/ · noun
- A slow-moving reptile with a shell, typically living on land and feeding on plants and animals. A person who moves slowly and carefully. Related: reptile, slowpoke, snail, tortoise.
- COQUINA /koʊˈkiːnə/ · noun
- A soft, porous limestone composed almost entirely of loosely cemented fragments of seashells and coral. Also, the small edible wedge-shell clam (genus Donax) found along sandy beaches of the southeastern United States. Related: shell limestone, coral limestone, shell rock.
- LIMESTONE /ˈlaɪmˌstoʊn/ · noun
- A type of sedimentary rock that is composed mainly of calcium carbonate, often used as a building material. Related: marble, sandstone, granite, slate.
- SANDSTONE /sændstoʊn/ · noun
- A type of sedimentary rock formed from sand-sized grains of minerals and rock fragments, often used as a building material. Related: limestone, granite, marble, conglomerate.
- DUNES /djuːnz/ (British); /duːnz/ (US) · noun
- Plural of 'dune': ridges or hills of sand formed by the wind, especially along seashores or in deserts. Related: sandhills, sanddrifts, ridges, hillocks.
- SEAGRASS /ˈsiːɡræs/ · noun
- A type of marine grass that grows in shallow coastal waters, often forming dense meadows. Related: marine grass, sea grass, coastal grass, salt marsh grass.
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