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Spell Bee Word: landmass


Basic Details

Word: Landmass

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: A very large area of land that is all joined together, such as a continent.

Synonyms: continent

How to Spell Landmass

Syllables: land - mass

Tricky part: It is two words, land and mass, joined with no space or hyphen. Mass ends in a double s.

Watch out for: landmas, landmus, lendmass

Memory tip: Turn a mass of land round and you get land + mass. Keep both s's of mass.

Usage Examples

Example 1: India sits on a landmass that slowly drifted north until it crashed into Asia.

Example 2: Australia is a single landmass surrounded by ocean.

Example 3: On the classroom globe every landmass is green and the seas are blue.

Fun Fact

Around 200 million years ago almost all of Earth's land was joined in one giant landmass that scientists call Pangaea.

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Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) landmass
b) rainforrest
c) waterfal
d) coastlin

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a) landmass. Coastline, rainforest and waterfall each lose or gain a letter here, while landmass keeps both s's.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

smadsnal

a) madness
b) landmarks
c) mainland
d) landmass

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d) landmass. Two words are packed in here, land and mass, and mass takes both s's.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

From space, the astronaut could see the brown landmas of Africa between two blue oceans.

a) Africa
b) astronaut
c) oceans
d) landmas

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d) landmas. Mass always finishes with a double s.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A continent is an example of a ____.

a) lake
b) cloud
c) landmass
d) river

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c) landmass

2. Two landmasses can be joined by ____.

a) a cloud
b) a rainbow
c) a waterfall
d) a narrow strip of land

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d) a narrow strip of land

Associated Words

lethargicstatisticsbaggymischiefconfident
approximatecherishenactblowerclarity

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