Winter Sports
This winter activity uses a board to slide down snowy hills.
What is snowboarding?
Instead of red, Santa Caus wears this color in many countries.
What is Green?
Liquid water turns to ice when it reaches this temperature.
What is 32 degrees Fahrenheit?
These animals sleep in the winter, though technically it is not hibernation.
What are bears?
This word means very cold, to the point of becoming solid.
What is freezing?
This Olympic sport involves jumping, spinning, and skating on ice.
What is figure skating?
Originally an Aztec drink, this warm concoction made with beans and milk is a staple of holiday gatherings.
What is Hot Chocolate?
This causes the days to be shorter in winter, and longer in summer.
What is the Earth's tilt?
Furry animals changing their coats to match the snow is called this.
What is camouflage?
A frozen layer of water below the ground that never melts
What is Permafrost?
This sport uses sticks to hit a puck across ice into a goal.
What is Ice Hockey?
The name of the shortest day of the year, and the longest night.
What is the winter solstice?
Due to the tilt of the earth, it is this season in the southern hemisphere right now.
What is summer?
This term describes animals who move around to find warmer areas to live during winter.
What is Migration?
This adjective describes weather of snow ice and strong winds.
What is blizzardly?
In this sport, athletes race while wearing long skis and helmets over long distances.
What is Cross Country Skiing?
This British story features a snowman who comes to life visits the north pole with the boy who made him, and returns home only to melt by morning, leaving behind his hat and scarf and a tangerine for a nose.
What is The Snowman?
When water freezes over roads and walkways making it very slippery, it is also very hard to see.
What is black ice?
This material helps insulate aquatic mammals from the cold and ice.
What is blubber?
This word means to cover in a thin layer of ice.
what is frost?
This international winter competition happens every four years and includes sports like bobsledding and biathlon.
What are the Winter Olympics?
This is the most popular and celebrated winter holiday in many Asian countries, the day is different every year due to the phases of the Moon
What is the lunar new year?
This process happens when ice changes directly into vapor with out melting into water first.
What is sublimation?
This term describes the state of long periods of low heart rate, breathing, and no food that some animals experience in the cold.
What is Hibernation?
This scientific term descrives the transfer of heat moving from a warm area to a cold one.
What is heat trasfer?