A winter storm that comes in off Lake Huron, bringing with it high winds and heavy snow.
What is a snow squall?
100
This continent is the coldest and driest of all the continents in the world.
What is Antarctica?
100
This highway is most often closed in our area on Snow Days.
What is Highway 21?
100
What is Canada's national winter sport?
What is hockey?
100
A large chunk of a glacier that falls off into the ocean and floats away is called ______________.
What is an iceberg?
200
Snow is a form of ________. Other forms are rain, hail and sleet.
What is precipitation?
200
This is the coldest temperature ever recorded. It was recorded in Antarctica on July 21, 1983. (You need to be within 5 degrees.)
What is -89C?
200
The major reason that there are far fewer students at school on a Snow Day is this.
What are bus cancellations?
200
The freestyle version of this sport involves doing jumps and moves on ramps and half-pipes.
What is snowboarding?
200
Three quarters of all the world's fresh water is stored in __________ .
What are glaciers?
300
Snow forms when water _____ in the atmosphere freezes into ice crystals
What is vapour?
300
When part of the body freezes. If severe or prolongued, doctors will need to amputate that part of the body.
What is frostbite?
300
On most snow days, recesses are ________ due to the severe weather outside.
What is inside?
300
In this sport, you guide a granite rock down a track of ice to its goal or house.
What is curling?
300
Water keeps the same mass when it freezes, but it takes up 9% more ________.
What is space or volume?
400
Skiers like to call light and fluffy snow that has just fallen _________ .
What is powder?
400
These three areas of the body most commonly become frostbitten when exposed to cold temperatures for too long.
What are fingers, toes, noses, and ears? (You only have to name 3)
400
You are encouraged to come to school on a snow day if you can ______________.
What is "getting to school safely"?
400
The first Winter Olympics was held in _______ (You have to be within 4 years)
What is 1924?
400
Before the refrigerator in the 1900's, people kept things that needed to stay cold in an ____ ______.
What is an ice box?
500
The major reason that Highway 21 is closed during winter storms.
What is poor visibility?
500
A condition when your body temperature falls below 35C. The normal body temperature is 37C.
What is hypothermia?
500
Chevy Chase, Schuyler Fisk, Chris Elliott and Mark Webber starred in this somewhat corny, 2000 winter movie titled ________________ .
What is "Snow Day"?
500
The first organized hockey game was played in 1875, in this city in Canada, by university students.
What is Montreal?
500
Before refrigeration in the early 1900's, ice houses stored ice and were double-walled, tightly insulated structures packed with ________ and other insulating materials.