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Spell Bee Word: Tropical

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What does tropical mean?

Word: Tropical

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Tropical means from, or like, the hot and often wet parts of the world near the equator.

How do you spell tropical?

Syllables: trop - i - cal

Tricky part: The middle beat is just one letter, i, and that is the letter children most often leave out.

Watch out for: tropecal, tropicol, tropikal

Memory tip: Imagine a picnic on a tropical beach: the p-i-c of picnic sits in the middle of tropical.

Tropical in a sentence

Example 1: Singapore has a hot, wet tropical climate.

Example 2: Parrots and monkeys live in tropical forests.

Example 3: Pineapples and bananas are tropical fruits.

Fun Fact

Tropical rainforests cover only a small part of the Earth's land, yet they are home to about half of all the kinds of plants and animals.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) tropical
b) trupical
c) tripical
d) trapical

Show answer

a) tropical. The first beat is trop, with an o.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

calporti

a) tropical
b) rtopical
c) torpical
d) tropilac

Show answer

a) tropical. Find the pic from the tip in the middle, then build out from it.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Mangoes and coconuts grow well in a tropicle place.

a) coconuts
b) tropicle
c) Mangoes
d) grow

Show answer

b) tropicle. The word ends in cal, not cle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these places has a tropical climate?

a) Antarctica
b) Ladakh
c) the North Pole
d) Kerala

Show answer

d) Kerala

2. Which fruit grows best in a hot, tropical place?

a) Plum
b) Apple
c) Pear
d) Papaya

Show answer

d) Papaya

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with tr: truth, travel, tram, track, treasure, tractor

More words from this list

amaze, canteen, dirty, gather, income, milkshake, proof, slide

Next steps

How to participate in CREST International Spell Bee

The CREST International Spell Bee (CSB) is conducted in two editions – CREST International Spell Bee - Summer (CSB) and CREST International Spell Bee - Winter (CSBW) – giving students across the globe an opportunity to showcase and enhance their spelling proficiency. Designed for young learners from Senior KG to Class 8, the competition focuses on word-building, pronunciation, and vocabulary enrichment, helping students develop strong linguistic skills.

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