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Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station
Post Visit Crossword Puzzle
Directions: Using the information that you learned during you visit to the Ponce Inlet Light
Station, answer the clues listed on the back of this worksheet and complete the crossword
puzzle below. Have fun and good luck. This puzzle may also be completed online at:
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4. Although it is technically a salt water lagoon, this
1. The unique shape, style, and color of a lighthouse
"river" is formed by a long barrier island stretching
north from Ponce Inlet.
that allows it to be identified by passing ships during the
day.
5. A clear object used in lighthouses beacons that
bends and reflects light.
10. A shallow ridge of sand, gravel, or silt that is
2. This acronym was commonly used to identify the
United States Light House Establishment.
3. Term used to describe when light bounces off a
formed by currents and usually lies just below the
surface of the water.
shiny surface and changes direction.
11. Lighthouse keepers used this type of fuel to power
place on or near the sea.
the Ponce Inlet lighthouse's beacon in days before
electricity.
12. A person who is responsible for running and
maintaining a lighthouse.
13. This large underground tank held rainwater and
6. The term used to describe all activities that take
7. This famous author wrote the Civil War novel "The
Red Badge of Courage" and the short story "The Open
Boat".
8. Well known for its clouds of biting insects, the area
now known as Ponce Inlet was once called this.
provided the keepers and their families with most of
their drinking water.
9. This commonly used type of lighthouse beacon was
16. This group of Native Americans lived throughout
invented by a Frenchman in 1822 and uses glass prisms
and lenses to focus and direct light.
northeast Florida long before the first Europeans
arrived.
14. Many believe that this famous Spanish explorer
22. The bright light at the top of a lighthouse is called
visited the Halifax area shortly after discovering Florida
in 1513.
this.
23. The term used to describe a lighthouse and all the
buildings around it.
15. Lighthouses, buoys, and channel markers are all
examples of this.
17. The term that is used to describe a lighthouse
24. The bending of light.
beacon's unique appearance and/or flash pattern.
25. A narrow body of water leading inland from a
18. A tower or building that houses a bright light that
larger body of water.
guides ships at night is called this.
26. Before indoor plumbing, the lighthouse keepers
19. Built in 1835, the first lighthouse built at Mosquito
and their families had to use this outdoor bathroom.
Inlet was designed by this man.
27. The name of the famous filibuster ship that sank 12
20. This branch of the military took over all of the
miles off the coast of Daytona Beach in 1897.
nation's lighthouses in 1939.
21. This term is used to describe the time when a
lighthouse's beacon is not flashing or cannot be seen.
Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station
Post-Visit Crossword Puzzle Solution
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Words Used in Puzzle: Halifax, prism, sandbar, kerosene, keeper, cistern, Timucuan, beacon, light station, refraction,
inlet, privy, Commodore, day mark, U.S.L.H.E., reflection, maritime, Stephen Crane, Mosquito Inlet, Fresnel Lens, Ponce
de Leon, aid to navigation, characteristic, lighthouse, Winslow Lewis, Coast Guard, eclipse