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This 40-word mineral-identification word search challenges high school earth science students with rare earth minerals and secondary minerals. Hidden words include monazite, xenotime, zircon, and eudialyte, spanning both precious and industrial minerals. Use it in a geology unit, as a challenge activity for advanced earth science students, or as a reference puzzle for mineral-collection enthusiasts.

Subject:
Science
Topic:
Geology
Grade Level:
9th – 12th Grades
Updated August 2021

Word List

  • AESCHYNITE
  • ALLANITE
  • ANATASE
  • APATITE
  • BASTNASITE
  • BRANNERITE
  • BRITHOLITE
  • CERITE
  • CERIANITE
  • CHERALITE
  • CHURCHITE
  • EUDIALYTE
  • EUXENITE
  • FERGUSONITE
  • FLORENCITE
  • HUANGHOITE
  • KAINOSITE
  • LOPARITE
  • MONAZITE
  • MOSANDRITE
  • PARISITE
  • SAMARSKITE
  • SYNCHISITE
  • THALENITE
  • XENOTIME
  • ZIRCON
  • ABRAMOVITE
  • AEGIRINE
  • ADELITE
  • AERINITE
  • AERUGITE
  • AFWILLITE
  • AJOITE
  • BARITE
  • BAZZITE
  • BERYL
  • CELSIAN
  • DOLOMITE
  • EVEITE
  • EUCLASE

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