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100
a competitive sport of ice skating in patterns or 'figures' and choreographed free skating.
What is Figure Skating?
100
"a severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility" or an ice cream treat at Dairy Queen.
What is a blizzard?
100
The activity of sliding down on a snowy hill sitting on a flat object
What is Tobogganing?
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 come to Arizona for the winter
What are 'snow birds'?
200
winter sport that evolved from skateboarding and surfing
What is snowboarding?
200
the coldest state in the US
What is Alaska?
200
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?
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
- *hint: these start our as caterpillars.
What are monarch butterflies?
They are the only insect that migrates to a warmer climate that is 2,500 miles away each year.
300
Most popular winter sport
What is Hockey?
300
US coldest temperature in recorded history
What is -70 degrees?
(it was in Montana in 1954)
300
This activity looks like you're doing jumping jacks laying in the snow.
What is making snow angels?
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
When making a snowman you start off with this. Fun for throwing..
What is a snowball?
400
How many sides does a snow flake have
What is 6 sides?
a typical snowflake, also called a Dendrite, has six sides/points.
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
Country that hosted the 2022 Winter Olympic Games
What is Beijing, China?
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
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?
500
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.
500
A movie where the King of Halloween decides to take over Santa Claus' job on Christmas day
What is 'The Nightmare Before Christmas?"
500
Name the 3 winter Astrological Signs
Capricorn - December 22 – January 20
Aquarius - January 21 – February 18
Pisces - February 19 – March 20
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
What it's called when rain is mixed with snow.
What is Sleet?
600
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?
600
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
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
This country’s winter climate is commonly referred to as “general winter” and is considered the coldest habitable country in the world
What is Russia?
700
The movie, "Cool Runnings" showcased this fast paced sport where the riders speed down a icy track
What is Bobsledding?
700
In Finland, you can stay in glass igloos during winter to watch these
What are the Northern Lights
700
the act of forming figures with tools, using Ice as the raw material.
What is ice sculpting?
700
Chionophobia is an irrational fear of what
(Ke-on-oh-phobia)
What is snow?
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
The country that had the deadliest recorded avalanche in the world
What is Italy?
(World's deadliest avalanche was in 1916)