Holidays
Many celebrations occur near this name for the first day of winter, the "shortest day" of the year.
What is the Winter Solstice?
Many animals do this during the winter to protect themselves from the cold.
What is hibernate?
This sport requires ice skates, ice, a puck and stick.
What is ice hockey?
It may be hard to believe, but every one of these has been found to have exactly six sides.
What is a snowflake?
According to the Guinness World Records, on January 28, 1887, one of these measured 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick in Fort Keogh, Montana.
What is a snowflake?
People wear this color clothing to celebrate the Chinese New Year, as it is thought to bring good luck.
What is red?
This bear lives in the coldest temperatures mostly within the Arctic Circle.
What is a polar bear?
The Iditarod, is this winter sport that involves traveling long distances with a pack of furry friends.
What is dog sledding?
Skin that is exposed to cold temperatures for too long can develop this condition.
What is frostbite?
This Hemisphere typically has milder winters because there is less land and more ocean.
What is the Southern Hemisphere?
Evergreen trees such as fir, spruce, and pine are used as decorations for this holiday.
What is Christmas?
A snowshoe hare's fur changes from brown to this color during the winter to be better camouflaged.
What is white?
This sport also takes place on ice and involves choreography set to music.
What is figure skating?
A long, intense snowstorm with low visibility has this special name.
What is a blizzard?
The largest recorded one of these was built in Bethel, Maine in 1999, measuring 113 feet and 7 inches.
What is a snowman?
This is a week long holiday that celebrates African heritage and community.
What is Kwanzaa?
The arctic fox has thick fur on these, that act as snowshoes for walking on snow and ice.
What are paws?
This sport involves descending a slope that is covered with snow while standing on a board attached to a rider's feet.
What is snowboarding?
This continent holds the record for the coldest recorded temperature.
What is Antarctica?
Silver Lake, Colorado holds the record at 76 inches for the biggest one of these in a 24 hour period.
What is a snowfall?
A dreidel is a four sided spinning top, played with during this holiday.
What is Hanukkah?
Chickadees don't migrate so to store food for the winter, they collect seeds and hide them in the cracks of this.
What is tree bark?
A sport in which teams of two or four teammates make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled.
What is bobsledding?
What is a nor'easter?
Millions of Monarch butterflies migrate 2,500 miles to this country every winter.
What is Mexico?