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Grade 4 and up (ages 9+), 15 by 15 grid, 15 words. Free for home and classroom use. License

Read the long science words together before searching. Choose one to illustrate separately after checking the final backwards placement in this hard grid.

Words to find: paleontology, excavation, sediment, specimen, skeleton, vertebra, impression, footprint, geology, evolution, cretaceous, ecosystem, herbivore, carnivore, extinction.

The picture is also a full-size coloring page: dinosaur skeleton coloring page.

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