What does heath mean?
Word: Heath
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Heath means an area of open, wild land covered with grass and low, tough bushes.
Synonyms: scrubland
How do you spell heath?
Syllables: heath
Tricky part: The ea makes a long ee sound, as in heat; it is not heeth.
Watch out for: heeth, haeth, hethe
Memory tip: On a sunny day, open heath soaks up the heat; the ea in the middle is the same in both words.
Heath in a sentence
Example 1: A narrow path wound across the heath to the old lighthouse.
Example 2: Skylarks sang above the heath as we walked.
Example 3: Bees buzzed over the purple flowers on the heath.
Fun Fact
London's Hampstead Heath, a large stretch of grassland and woods, covers about 320 hectares.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word heath as used in the sentence:
Wild ponies graze on the heath all summer.
a) harbour
b) moor
c) desert
d) orchard
Show answer
b) moor. A moor, like a heath, is open, wild land.
Spell-o-Spell
Only one word in the list is misspelt. Choose the meaning of that word.
1. meadow 2. marsh 3. heath 4. vallei
a) a field of grass and wild flowers
b) soft, wet land that is often flooded
c) open wild land with low bushes
d) low land between hills or mountains
Show answer
d) low land between hills or mountains. Valley ends in ey, not ei; the other three words have no slip.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
heathh
a) a
b) t
c) e
d) h
Show answer
d) h. The word ends in th with just one h, as in path and bath.
Mingle-Mangle
Rearrange the jumbled letters in the sentence to form the right word:
We walked across the open tahhe, where only small bushes grew.
a) hatch
b) heath
c) haste
d) theme
Show answer
b) heath. The jumble has two h's; hatch needs a c, haste an s and theme an m.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. On a heath you would expect to find ____.
a) a busy fish market
b) gorse bushes in yellow flower
c) tall office blocks
d) rows of rice fields
Show answer
b) gorse bushes in yellow flower
2. Heath and heather are linked because heather is a plant that ____.
a) floats on the surface of lakes
b) grows only in hot deserts
c) climbs the trunks of tall trees
d) often covers this kind of land
Show answer
d) often covers this kind of land
