Winter Wonders
This phenomenon creates bands of colored light in polar regions during winter.
What are the Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis?
This is the year PLIA was established.
What is 1989?
This Seattle landmark is often mistaken for a flying saucer.
What is the Space Needle?
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
This festival, celebrated around the winter solstice, originated with African American communities to honor their heritage and shared values.
What is Kwanzaa?
This icy phenomenon, often called "sea smoke," occurs when cold air passes over warmer water.
What is steam fog?
Not completing or delaying computer updates could leave the system exposed to this.
What is a cyberattack?
Mount Rainier is classified as this type of volcano.
What is a stratovolcano?
This is the name for the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing can escape.
What is the event horizon?
This country has won the most gold medals in Winter Olympic history as of 2022.
What is Norway?
This weather pattern, caused by warm ocean water in the Pacific, can result in milder winters in the Pacific Northwest.
What is El Niño?
Today is the birthday of this PLIA manager.
Who is Phi Ly?
This dam on the Columbia River is one of the largest concrete structures in the world and is the largest concrete dam in the US.
What is the Grand Coulee Dam?
The northernmost layer of Earth's atmosphere, where the auroras occur is called this.
What is the thermosphere?
Known as one of the most extraordinary moments of WWI, this event in 1914 saw enemies cease fire to celebrate the holiday spirit together.
What is the Christmas truce?
In Norse mythology, this giant was said to bring winter to the land.
Who is Jack Frost?
This PLIA leader also teaches golf lessons.
Who is Russ Olsen?
This temperate rainforest located on the Olympic Peninsula is one of the largest in the US.
What is the Hoh Rainforest?
The human body has 206 of these.
What are bones?
This famous winter event, featuring elaborate ice sculptures, has been held annually in Harbin, China since 1963.
What is Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival?
This term describes the icy buildup that forms on objects when supercooled water droplets freeze on contact.
What is rime ice?
PLIA's funding primarily comes from this source.
What is the Petroleum Products Tax?
Construction on this bridge began in August 1934 and in 1982 it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
What is Deception Pass Bridge?
This rare earth element, with the symbol W, is commonly used in light bulb filaments because of its high melting point.
What is tungsten?
This expedition, led by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen in the 1890s, was the first to deliberately freeze a ship into Artic ice to study the polar environment.
What is the Fram expedition?