19 Mountains Word Searches to Print and Play
Pick a puzzle, choose one of 12 printable designs and download the PDF with its answer key. Free, no sign-up.
Mountains Shaped Word Searches1
The grid is the picture: mountain. Print one and color it in once it is solved.
Easy Mountains Word Searches6
8x8 grids with 8 words. Words run across and up and down, never diagonally, and some read backwards. Players finish them in a median of 85 seconds on their first try.
Medium Mountains Word Searches6
11x11 grids with 9 to 11 words. Words run across, up and down, and diagonally, and some read backwards.
Hard Mountains Word Searches6
15x15 grids with 12 to 14 words. Words run in all eight directions, and some read backwards.
Mountain Word Searches: Famous Peaks by Country and Continent
Mountains country by country and continent by continent: the peaks of the United States, Spain, the UK, Mexico, Canada and Japan for beginners, the Andes, the Alps and the Dolomites at medium level, and the great ranges of every continent in the hard puzzles.
Because each puzzle focuses on one country or region, they work well in a geography unit: pair Mountains of Asia and the Himalayas with a map of Everest, or start younger students with Mountains of the United States.
Which Mountains word search should you print?
Here is where to start at each level, from the simplest grids to the ones with words in every direction.
Shaped puzzles: to print and color
1 puzzle. Try: Mountain Shaped.
Easy: ages 5 to 8
6 puzzles. Good first picks: Mountains of the United States, Mountains of Spain and the Pyrenees and Mountains of the United Kingdom.
Medium: ages 8 to 12
6 puzzles. Good first picks: Mountains of Colombia and the Northern Andes, Mountains of Argentina and the Southern Andes and Mountains of France and the French Alps.
Hard: teens and adults
6 puzzles. Good first picks: Mountains of the World Challenge, Mountains of Asia and the Himalayas and Mountains of Europe and the Alpine Ranges.
Mountain Geography Activities for the Classroom
- Give each group a different country puzzle and have them mark its mountains on a blank map.
- After Mountains of the World Challenge, rank the peaks students found by height.
- Pair Mountains of Switzerland and the Swiss Alps with a lesson on glaciers.
Mountains Word Search FAQ
How many Mountains word searches are there?
There are 19: 6 easy, 6 medium, 6 hard and 1 shaped. All of them can be played online or printed as a PDF with an answer key.
Are there mountain word searches for my country?
There are puzzles for the United States, Canada, Mexico, Spain, the UK, Japan, Colombia, Argentina, France, Italy, Switzerland and Oceania, plus one for each continent.
Which mountain word search is the hardest?
Mountains of the World Challenge and the continent puzzles (Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas) use long proper names in a 15x15 grid with words in every direction.