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True or false, it can be too warm to snow, but it cannot be too cold to snow !
True, even the coldest air can hold some moisture!
True or false, a reindeer's eyes change color to allow it to see in both summer and winter months!
True, a few weeks a year they live in complete darkness. Their eyes adjust, gold color in the summer and blue in the winter!
True or false, earth is closest to the Sun during winter!
True, around January 3rd the Earth is the closest to the sun. (compared to July 5th when it is the furthest from the sun)
The distance from the sun does not cause seasons, but it does affect the length of them
True or false, Christmas shopping accounts for 1/2 of all retail sales in the united states ! (for the whole year)
False, it is about 1/6th!
True or false, "mistletoe" means "little dung twig"!
True , (anglo-saxon) because the plant is spread through bird droppings!
True or false, a snowflake can take up to 2 hours to fall from a cloud to the ground!
True !
True or false, in New Zealand there is a creature called the Weta that freezes completely solid in the winter and when the weather warms back up, it thaws and resumes its activities!
True ! Some Weta's can reach the size of a rat! (they kind of look like grasshoppers)
True or false, male reindeer shed their antlers around Christmas time!
True, females usually shed and regrow their antlers after they give birth to a calf!
True or false, it takes 20 years for a christmas tree to get 6-7 feet tall, tall enough to sell for a Christmas tree!
False, it can get there in 4-7 years, but some trees can take 15 years to get to 6-7 feet tall.
True or false, There is a "rent-a-claus" program that trains people how to be a mall santa claus. The training includes how to be jolly while under pressure from the public, not to accept money from parents while children are looking, avoiding garlic, onions and beans for lunch!
True ! there are around 20,000 rent a claus's around the united states!
True or false, the largest snowflake ever spotted was close to 15 metres wide!
False, it was close to 15 inches! it is in the Guinness World Records book!
True or false, snow is actually blue not white!
False, it is white. Unless a dog got to it first!
True or false, the arctic fox, arctic hare, ptarmigan, barren-ground caribou and ermine all change colors in winter!
True! this helps for survival, being able to blend into the snow easier
True or false, mosquito's cannot survive through the winter!
False, they live through the winter as adults and hide in an animal burrow or hallow log
True or false, Norwegian scientists have hypothesized that Rudolph's red nose is probably the result of some sort of parasitic infection.
True.... but debatable!
True or false, The coldest months in Australia are June, July and August!
True !
True or false, the North pole is colder than the South pole!
False, the south pole is colder due to it's elevation difference and also it is in the middle of a continent.
True or false, summer heat causes more deaths than winter cold cause on average.
False, winter cold kills more than twice as many people as summer heat does!
True or false, millions of monarch butterflies fly to mexico for the winter!
True, they are the only insect that migrates to a warmer climate! it is about 2,500 miles away!
True or false, the former president Barrack Obama popularized the term "Snowmagddon"
True, it was when two blizzards in 2010 struck , both blizzards broke snowfall records.
True or false, the coldest temperature ever recorded was -98.2 degrees!
True! It was at a station in Antarctica on July 21st, 1983
True ! set in 2008 in Maine
True or false, Oymyakon Russia is the coldest place to live!
True, this town has about 500 residents. the temperature got down to -88 in November this year!
True or false, every winter at least one septillion (that's 1 followed by 24 zeros) snow crystals fall from the sky!
True!
True or false, in 2007 several schools joined together to make the record for most snow angels created at one time.
True, it was in North Dakota, and they created 8,962 snow angels at once!