WINTER Expressions
You’re on thin __________.
What is Ice?
Traditional Christmas flavored hard candy shaped like a cane:
What is a peppermint candy cane?
On this holiday, nice children get presents, while naughty ones get coal.
What is Christmas?
Some animals do this in the winter to conserve resources when food is scarce.
What is hibernate?
Spike of ice formed when water falling from an object freezes
What are icicles?
The winter activity that involves hitting people with cold, white spheres.
What is a Snowball fight?
In the __________ of winter.
What is Dead?
A winter drink made with egg, milk, and a lot of sugar, originated from early medieval British.
What is egg nog?
This holiday celebrates the miracle of one night's oil burning for 8 nights.
What is Hanukkah?
This animal looks like it is wearing a tuxedo or suit.
What is a penguin?
The number of points a snowflake has.
What is 6?
This winter activity involves sliding on the ice wearing special shoes that have blades.
What is ice skating?
That’s just the tip of the __________.
What is Iceberg?
What type of cookie is this house is made out of.
What is gingerbread?
The holiday that celebrates love but originated as a feast to celebrate the death of a Christian martyr.
What is Valentine's Day?
What happens to the arctic fox in winter if it spends a lot of time in the snow.
What is, its fur turns white?
A severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility.
What is a blizzard?
What you create when you lie on a snowy surface and flap your arms and legs.
What is a snow angel?
I slept so well last night, I was out __________.
What is Cold?
This sweet drink made from roasted & ground beans, usually topped with Marshmallows.
What is hot chocolate (or cocoa)?
Lunar or Chinese New Year is marked each year by one of 12 different ones of these.
What are Animals?
Squirrel found solely in the North America. It can lower its body temp to below freezing during hibernation!
What is an arctic squirrel?
Condition when it is snowing so much one cannot distinguish the ground from the sky.
What is a white-out?
This activity involves a sled pulled by one or more dogs used to travel over ice and through snow.
What is Dog sledding?
I’m no good at meeting new people, I can never seem to __________.
What is Break the ice?
A traditional food people eat for Lunar (Chinese) New Year.
Sweet rice cake, Dumplings, Sweet Rice Balls, Tangerines/Oranges, Whole Fish or Chicken, Noodles
The month in which winter ends in the Northern Hemisphere
What is March?
The color of a polar bear's skin.
What is black? (Their FUR is colourless and transparent, their SKIN is black.)
At this temperature it is cold enough for snow to form in the atmosphere.
What is 32 deg. (F, or 0 C)
Sport of sliding down snow-covered slopes and artificial-ice-covered chutes
What is sledding or tobogganing?
It's a brass _______ winter.
What is monkey
This Swedish drink is made from red wine, orange, ginger ale , and spices such as cinnamon, with almonds and raisins placed in the bottom of the cup.
What is glögg? (pronounced "glue-gh")
Marks the moment in time when the Old Sun dies and when the Sun of the New Year is born (shortest day)
What is the Winter Solstice?
Arctic and sub-Arctic cetacean, their distinctive color and prominent foreheads make them easily identifiable.
What is a beluga whale?
A dangerous condition when skin, especially hands and feet, gets so cold it could be damaged.
What is frostbite?
Activity involving walking over snow with the assistance of a type of outer footwear that features a wide frame to distribute the weight of the person over a larger area.
What is snow shoeing?
To not talk to someone is to give them the __________.
What is Cold shoulder?
What Clarence the Angel from It's a Wonderful Life order at Nick's bar
What is mulled wine?
The animal we watch on February 2nd to see if it sees its shadow.
What is a Groundhog?
A large, powerful owl of the high Arctic tundra, colored for camouflage during northern winters.
What is a snowy owl?
A dangerous condition in which the body's temperature is abnormally low.
What is hypothermia?
Sport popular in Canada where players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target
What is curling?