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Spell Bee Word: Permafrost

Permafrost (noun): ground that stays frozen all year round, for years on end, in very cold parts of the world.


What does permafrost mean?

Word: Permafrost

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Permafrost means ground that stays frozen all year round, for years on end, in very cold parts of the world.

How do you spell permafrost?

Syllables: per - ma - frost

Tricky part: The middle is ma, short for permanent, so it is perma, not permo or perme.

Watch out for: permofrost, permefrost, purmafrost

Memory tip: Its first five letters, perma, are the start of permanent, because this ground stays frozen for good.

Permafrost in a sentence

Example 1: Houses in parts of Siberia stand on stilts above the permafrost.

Example 2: Scientists drilled into the permafrost to study ancient ice.

Example 3: In the high Himalaya, some slopes have patches of permafrost.

Fun Fact

Frozen woolly mammoths thousands of years old have been found preserved in Siberian permafrost.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) avalanch
b) glaicer
c) blizard
d) permafrost

Show answer

d) permafrost. Glacier has ci before er, avalanche ends in e, and blizzard needs a double z.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

permafrosst

a) t
b) s
c) r
d) f

Show answer

b) s. Frost has one s, and so does permafrost.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tmesrofrap

a) permafrost
b) frostbite
c) permanent
d) performs

Show answer

a) permafrost. Permanent needs n's, performs leaves out the a and t, and frostbite needs a b and an i.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Scientists call ground permafrost only if it has stayed frozen for at least ____.

a) one whole winter
b) three months
c) a hundred years
d) two years in a row

Show answer

d) two years in a row

2. Why are scientists worried when permafrost melts?

a) it causes more earthquakes
b) it releases gases that warm the planet
c) it turns the tundra into desert
d) it makes sea water less salty

Show answer

b) it releases gases that warm the planet

Associated Words

Words that end in -ost: foremost, signpost, compost

More words from this list

shipment, unsuccessful, aerodynamics, brittle, correspondent, embolden, guidance, locality

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