Theodore Roosevelt National Park Word Search

Tap a letter to start, then tap the last letter of the word to find it. Or tap a word in the bar to hunt for it — clues are below the grid.

• BISON North America's heaviest land animal. A bull can weigh as much as a small car.
• PRAIRIE The grass sea that spreads between the badlands buttes.
• COTERIE A prairie-dog family group: one adult male, several females, and their pups.
• BADGER A strong digger with a taste for prairie dogs, hunted right at their burrows.
• BIGHORN The sheep at home on North Unit cliffs and ledges.
• PRONGHORN Grazes near prairie-dog towns, drawn in by the short, clipped grass.
• RATTLESNAKE The only venomous snake in the park, living in grass and rocky ground.
• CLINKER Red rock baked hard by a burning underground coal seam. Locally called scoria.
• LIGNITE Soft coal that can burn slowly underground for years, baking the rock above it.
• BENTONITE A badlands clay that turns as slick as soap when it rains.
• CAPROCK A hard rock layer that protects the softer clay butte underneath it from washing away.
• COULEE A dry, cut badlands wash, the kind Caprock Coulee Trail climbs out of.
• BUTTE A flat-topped hill left standing after the softer land around it wore away.
• MEDORA The 1883 town at the South Unit gate.
• ELKHORN Roosevelt's second ranch, built in 1884, on the river between the two park units.