WINTER Expressions
You’re on thin __________.
What is Ice?
Traditional Christmas candy modeled after a Shepherd's staff:
What is a candy cane?
This is the percentage of the world's freshwater supply that comes from snow and ice...
20% 40% 60% 80%
What is 80%?
Some animals do this in the winter to conserve resources when food is scarce.
What is hibernate?
Spike of ice formed when water falling from an object freezes
What are icicles?
The winter activity that involves hitting people with cold, white spheres.
What is a Snowball fight?
In the __________ of winter.
What is Dead?
A winter drink made with egg, milk, and a lot of sugar, originated from early medieval British.
What is egg nog?
U.S. state with the most snow days per year
What is Alaska?
This animal looks like it is wearing a tuxedo or suit.
What is a penguin?
The number of points a snowflake has.
What is 6?
This winter activity involves sliding on the ice wearing special shoes that have blades.
What is ice skating?
That’s just the tip of the __________.
What is Iceberg?
What type of cookie is this house is made out of.
What is gingerbread?
Name of the dogsled race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska in early March each year.
What is The Iditarod?
Inuit (Ingalik and Holikachuk) word for distant or distant place.
This happens to an arctic fox in winter when it spends a lot of time in the snow.
What is, its fur turns white?
A severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility.
What is a blizzard?
What you create when you lie on a snowy surface and flap your arms and legs.
What is a snow angel?
I slept so well last night, I was out __________.
What is Cold?
This sweet drink made from roasted & ground beans, usually topped with Marshmallows.
What is hot chocolate (or cocoa)?
Lunar or Chinese New Year is marked each year by one of 12 different ones of these.
What are Animals?
Squirrel found solely in the North America. It can lower its body temp to below freezing during hibernation!
What is an arctic squirrel?
Condition when it is snowing so much one cannot distinguish the ground from the sky.
What is a white-out?
This activity involves a sled pulled by one or more dogs used to travel over ice and through snow.
What is Dog sledding?
I’m no good at meeting new people, I can never seem to __________.
What is Break the ice?
A traditional food people eat for Lunar (Chinese) New Year.
Sweet rice cake, Dumplings, Sweet Rice Balls, Tangerines/Oranges, Whole Fish or Chicken, Noodles
These are the three months of winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
What are June, July, and August?
The color of a polar bear's skin.
What is black? (Their FUR is colourless and transparent, their SKIN is black.)
At this temperature it is cold enough for snow to form in the atmosphere.
What is 32 deg. (F, or 0 C)
Sport of sliding down snow-covered slopes and artificial-ice-covered chutes
What is sledding or tobogganing?
Snug as a ________ in a rug.
What is bug
This treat is sometimes given as a holiday gift. It is made from sugar, butter, and milk. It can come in different flavors like maple, peanut butter, and candy cane.
What is fudge?
Marks the moment in time when the Old Sun dies and when the Sun of the New Year is born (shortest day)
What is the Winter Solstice?
You will find this animal around the beaches of Antarctica and the Arctic. These animals are friendly and content as long as they can spend their lives in cold water. When they are on normal, dry land, they become extremely hostile.
What is a harp seal?
A dangerous condition when skin, especially hands and feet, gets so cold it could be damaged.
What is frostbite?
In the history of the Winter Olympics, this county has won the most medals.
What is Norway??
To not talk to someone is to give them the __________.
What is Cold shoulder?
Eggnog's Country of origin
What is England?
Fear of snow
What is Chionophobia?
A large, powerful owl of the high Arctic tundra, colored for camouflage during northern winters.
What is a snowy owl?
A dangerous condition in which the body's temperature is abnormally low.
What is hypothermia?
Sport popular in Canada where players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target
What is curling?