Seas and Gulfs of the World: Caribbean, Baltic, Aegean and Caspian

Nine named bodies of water from around the globe. The Caribbean lies between the Americas; the Baltic and the Aegean are European seas; the Bering Sea separates Alaska from Russia; the Coral Sea holds the Great Barrier Reef; and the Arabian Sea, the Andaman Sea and the Persian Gulf are arms of the Indian Ocean.

The Baltic is so fresh, thanks to the rivers pouring into it, that some freshwater fish live in it.

World Seas & Gulfs Vocabulary: 9 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down, and diagonally; 5 of the 9 read backwards. The longest word is Caribbean, with 9 letters.

Aegean: The Aegean Sea, between Greece and Turkey, dotted with more than a thousand islands.
Andaman: The Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal, and the Andaman Sea that lies east of them.
Arabian: Of Arabia: the Arabian Peninsula gives its name to a desert, a sea and a tectonic plate.
Baltic: The Baltic Sea in northern Europe, whose water is only slightly salty.
Bering: The Bering Sea and Bering Strait, between Alaska and Russia, named after the explorer Vitus Bering.
Caribbean: The Caribbean Sea and its islands, between North and South America; it also names a tectonic plate.
Caspian: The Caspian Sea, between Europe and Asia, which has no outlet to the ocean.
Coral: Tiny sea animals that build reefs; they also name the Coral Sea, off northeast Australia.
Persian: The Persian Gulf, the arm of the Indian Ocean between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.

How to Solve the World Seas & Gulfs Word Search

"Bering" and "Caribbean" are the only diagonals; "Caribbean", with a double B, reads backwards. "Caspian" and "Andaman", which has the only D and M, run upward. "Aegean" and "Arabian" read backwards. "Baltic" is the only word that reads normally across.

Seas and Gulfs Map Quiz

Find each sea on a world map and name the ocean it belongs to.
Ask which of them is not connected to any ocean.
List the countries that border the Caribbean.