Basic Facts
This Canadian inventor created the snowmobile.
What is Joseph-Armand Bombardier?
This part of the snowmobile helps it steer.
What are skis?
This skill means not giving up even when things are difficult.
What is perseverance?
This term refers to the group of people a product is made for.
What is target audience?
This country benefited the most from the invention of the snowmobile due to its long winters.
What is Canada?
This is the name of the snowmobile Bombardier released in 1959.
What is Ski-Doo?
This system helped prevent the snowmobile from sinking in snow.
What is the rubber track system?
Bombardier used this method of testing, failing, and improving.
What is trial and error?
These people were the main users of early snowmobiles.
What are rural Canadians?
This type of environment made Bombardier’s invention necessary because of heavy snow and cold weather.
What is a harsh winter climate?
This Canadian province is where Bombardier lived and worked.
What is Quebec?
This provides power to the snowmobile.
What is an engine?
This type of failure happened when his early machines didn’t work properly.
What are mechanical failures?
This term means creating new ideas to solve problems.
What is innovation?
This recreational activity became popular because of snowmobiles.
What is snowmobiling?
This type of vehicle is designed to travel over snow.
What is a snowmobile?
This term means how well something grips a surface.
What is traction?
This challenge involved having limited money to continue building prototypes.
What is financial limitation?
This company was founded by Bombardier after his success.
What is Bombardier Inc.?
This type of outdoor place often uses snowmobiles to help workers move around during winter.
What is a ski resort?
This early snow vehicle built in 1937 was large and carried multiple passengers.
What is the B7?
This feature distributed weight evenly, making the invention successful.
What is the track design (rubber track system)?
This personal tragedy motivated Bombardier to improve winter transportation.
What is the death of his son?
This type of service uses snowmobiles to help people in emergencies.
What is search and rescue?
This type of vehicle is commonly used in ski resorts to groom snow and is similar to snowmobiles in using tracks.
Hint: Snow-(an animal usually found in many households)
What is a snow-cat?