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Snowflakes
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100
Not real.
What is artificial?
100
A small piece of a substance that has many sides and is formed when the substance turns into a solid.
What is a crystal?
100
A person who studies plants and animals as they live in nature.
What is a naturalist?
100
These are created in clouds by small frozen water droplets.
What are snow crystals?
100
Some snow crystals have perfect ______, but no _____ snow crystals are alike.
Some snow crystals have perfect symmetry, but no two snow crystals are alike.
200
The quality of something that has two sides or halves that are the same or very close in size, shape, and position.
What is symmetry?
200
The state in which something exists.
What is condition?
200
Something that is given to help a person, a cause, etc.
What is contribution?
200
He was the one that made the biggest contribution to the study of snow crystals.
Who is Nakaya Ukichiro?
200
A tiny water _______ freezes and becomes a ______ ice crystal.
A tiny water droplet freezes and becomes a 6-sided ice crystal.
300
An unusual or wonderful event that is believed to be caused by the power of God.
What is a miracle?
300
Something that helps produce or influence a result : one of the things that cause something to happen.
What is factor?
300
Used to indicate that one number or amount is being subtracted from another.
What is minus?
300
This has amazed scientists for a long time concerning snow crystals.
What are their complex and beautiful shapes?
300
The diagram shows us what kinds of snow crystals are ______ under what ______. He said, "Snow crystals are _____ from the sky."
The diagram shows us what kinds of snow crystals are formed under what conditions. He said, "Snow crystals are letters from the sky."
400
A drawing that explains or shows the parts of something.
What is a diagram?
400
A substance that is in the form of a gas or that consists of very small drops or particles mixed with the air.
What is vapor?
400
The act of mentioning something in speech or in writing.
What is reference?
400
Ukichiro changed THESE to produce many different kinds of snow crystals.
What is temperature and amounts of water vapor?
400
Toshitsura used a ________ imported from Holland and made _________ of snow crystals over a ________ period.
Toshitsura used a microscope imported from Holland and made observations of snow crystals over a 20-year period.
500
To officially decide (something) especially because of evidence or facts.
What is determine?
500
To cause (someone) to be very interested in something or someone.
What is fascinate?
500
Something (such as an important idea or subject) that is repeated throughout a book, story, etc.
What is a motif?
500
These are waiting for you right outside your door.
What are "Miracles of beauty"?
500
"Snow crystals were ________ of beauty. When a snow crystal ________, that design was forever ______."
"Snow crystals were miracles of beauty. When a snow crystal melted, that design was forever lost."
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