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100
a competitive sport of ice skating in patterns or 'figures' and choreographed free skating.
What is Figure Skating?
100
Temperature that is at the freezing point.
What is 0 degrees Celsius?
100
You’d better make him quickly
When there’s white stuff on the ground
Because he disappears
When the sun’s heat comes around
What is a snowman?
100
This type of knitted hat, that keeps your face warm, is called this
What is a Balaclava?
100
Disney movie in which a princess, the elder of two sisters, has the power to create and manipulate snow and ice.
What is 'Frozen'?
100
People who fly south for the winter are often called
What are 'snow birds'?
200
winter sport that evolved from skateboarding and surfing
What is snowboarding?
200
"a severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility" or an ice cream treat at Dairy Queen.
What is a blizzard?
200
This activity looks like you're doing jumping jacks laying in the snow.
What is making snow angels?
200
If you spend too much time outside and your skin freezes, you might get this
What is Frost bite?
200
This snowman "came to life one day"
What is 'Frosty the Snowman'
200
- Millions of these fly to Mexico for the winter.
What are monarch butterflies?
They are the only insect that migrates to a warmer climate that is 2,500 miles away each year.
300
competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates.
what is speed skating?
300
Best type of snow to make a snowman
What is packing snow?
300
When making a snowman you start off with this. Fun for throwing..
What is a snowball?
300
the condition or period of an animal or plant spending the winter in a dormant state.
grizzly bear gorge on seeds to prepare for this
What is hibernation?
300
Movie about a boy left home at Christmas
What is 'Home Alone'?
300
A famous winter festival that takes place in New Orleans?
What is Mardi Gras?
400
looks like the players are sweeping the ice
What is curling?
400
when it's raining and the temperature drops below 0 degrees celsius, you might get this
What is freezing rain?
400
catching fish with lines and fish hooks or spears through an opening in the ice on a frozen body of water.
What is Ice fishing?
400
The last day of winter
What is March 20th?
400
In this movie, our hero Mumble is the worst singer in the world, but he can tap dance brilliantly.
What is 'Happy Feet'?
400
This Country hosted the 2018 Winter Games
What is South Korea?
500
similar to dirt biking, riders follow a track. Except rather than dirt the terrain is covered in snow.
What is Snowmobiling?
500
This type of road sign has this meaning 
What is 'Caution-road may be slippery at freezing point'
500
When everything is blanketed in thick snow you’d usually rule out hiking unless you have these to trek through the white stuff
What are Snowshoes?
500
How many sides does a snow flake have
What is 6 sides?
a typical snowflake, also called a Dendrite, has six sides/points.
500
this movie is about a dad who comes back to visit his son as a snowman
What is 'Jack Frost'?
500
The earth is the closest to the sun in this month
What is December?
Though it might seem unlikely, the Earth’s orbit typically brings it the closest to the sun during the coldest period of the year. Our cold weather comes from the decreased sunlight.
600
an ancient practice that relies on energetic packs of huskies to pull sleds through wintry landscapes.
What is Dog Sledding?
Dog Sledding is thought to originate in Alaska.
Today, dog sled racing is a popular sport in the Arctic regions of America and Europe, in which teams of sled dogs compete in pulling their ‘musher’ (dog driver) the fastest.
600
a blizzard or squall that reduces visibility to near zero
What is a 'Whiteout'?
600
the act of forming figures with tools, using Ice as the raw material.
What is ice sculpting?
600
the shortest day of the year is often called this
What is Winter solstice?
The winter solstice, also called the hibernal solstice, occurs when either of Earth's poles reaches its maximum tilt away from the Sun.
600
This story takes place in a prehistoric world, covered with snow and ice. To stay alive, a woolly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger, a sloth and a prehistoric combination of a squirrel and rat, begin migrating south .
What is 'Ice Age'?
600
an ancient stone monument that is aligned with the winter solstice sunset
What is Stonehenge?
700
The movie, "Cool Runnings" showcased this fast paced sport where the riders speed down a icy track
What is Bobsledding?
700
What it's called when rain is mixed with snow.
What is Sleet?
700
In Finland, you can stay in glass igloos during winter to watch these
What are the Northern Lights
700
Geese (and many other migrating birds) fly in this formation to conserve energy
What is a 'V' formation?
When birds fly in this formation, it decreases the wind resistance, meaning they can fly for much longer before stopping to rest. It also makes it easier to keep track of each other in the group!
700
Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion.
What is: 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'?
700
Chionophobia is an irrational fear of what
(Ke-on-oh-phobia)
What is snow?