Winter Flora
Merry Menagerie
Potpourri
100

These trees always have leaves in the winter.

What are Evergreens?

100

Experts on this physical science have drafted equations to help us cook turkeys to perfection.

What is Thermodynamics?

100

This scientist introduced Christmas lights to the world in 1882.

Who is Thomas Edison?

200

The color of berries on MOST mistletoe plants.

What is red?

200

Santa would need 360,000 of these to pull his sleigh, due to the weight of all the presents.

What are reindeer?

200

These start to form when water is at 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahenheit).

What are ice crystals?

300

This plant may actually kill the trees it infects.

What is mistletoe?

300

This is the gender of all of Santa's Reindeer, because they have antlers in winter.

What is female?

300

These types of scientists research past records to predict white winters far into the future.

What are climatologists?

400

These types of plants will return after winter.

What are perennials?

400

These two popular winter animals never meet. 

What are polar bears and penguins?

400

Paraffin waxes are usually made from carbon and hydrogen molecules making them this chemical compound.

What is a hydrocarbon?

500

Cranberries contain a small pocket of air inside which causes them to be THIS in water.

What is buoyant?

500

This Annual Christmas Count is one of the best databases to track the distribution of species.

What is bird?

500

Santa's sleigh would have to travel over 3,000 times the speed of _________ for him to deliver toys to everyone on Earth.

What is Sound?

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