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What does it mean?
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Obstacles
100
Wilson Bentley's occupation
What is a farmer?
100
True or False? No two snowflakes are exactly alike?
What is true?
100
In the statement: While the other children built forts and pelted snowballs at roosting crows...." What does pelted mean?
What is throwing repeatedly?
100
The year Snowflake Bentley died.
What is 1931?
100
How many miles did Willie walk in a blizzard?
What are six?
200
Wilson Bentley was born in this state, known as the heart of the snowbelt.
What is Vermont?
200
Snowflakes are make up of ice _______?
What are crystals?
200
The child’s hands were as cold as ice. When two or more things are compared using like or as, this is know as a S_____
What is simile?
200
What year did Snowflake Bentley win the Caldecott Medal?
What is 1999
200
Willie died of what illness at age 66?
What is pneumonia?
300
Who gave Willie Bentley an old microscope?
Who is his mother?
300
The _______ with the microscope allowed Willie to share the snowflakes others.
What is camera?
300

 Why are the snowflake photos taken by Kenneth Libbrecht and Willie Bentley important?

  • The photos teach people about snowflakes.
  • The photos show people how beautiful snowflakes are.
  • The photos show people how different each snowflake is.
  • The photos are works of art.
300
The annual snowfall in Vermont averages 120 inches. What does the word annual mean?
What is yearly?
300
People _______ laughed at Willie Bentley's idea to take pictures of snowflakes.
What are people?
400
Who spent their savings to buy Willie a microscope with a camera?
What are his parents?
400

 According to the passage, why does Kenneth Libbrecht take snapshots of snowflakes?

Kenneth Libbrecht takes snapshots of snowflakes to learn more about how the flakes get their shapes.

400
Willie’s work was greatly respected near the end of his life and inspired others. What does inspired mean in this sentence?
What is to make others want to do something.
400
Willie discovered that most ice crystals have ____branches
What are six?
400

What was unusual about Willie's childhood activities?

few people read through an entire encyclopedias.  Instead of playing in the snow, he looked at snowflakes under a microscope.

500
The people of Jericho built a _____ for Willie Bentley in the middle of town.
What is a monument?
500

Kenneth Libbrecht received the Lennart Nilsson Award. What reasons did the awards committee give for honoring him?

The awards committee said that Kenneth Libbrecht’s images "open our eyes to the . . . beauty of nature." They also said that his photos turn "mathematics [and science] into images of great beauty

500
Its microscope could magnify a tiny crystal from 64 to 3,600 times its actual size. What does the magnify mean?
What is make larger?
500
Willie spent three winters trying to draw the complicated patterns he saw when he looked at snowflakes through the _________.
What is microscope?
500
Willie’s first pictures were failures. The pictures looked like _______.
What are shadows?