SNOWFLAKE RESEARCH

DIRECTIONS – PLEASE READ!!

A. Write down each search phrase you use for each
question.
B. Record the answer to the question.
C. Paste the URL of the sites where the answers are found.

Try different search engines! Bing, Dogpile, Yahoo, AltaVista,

Metacrawler, GoCom

1. What is the name of the self-educated farmer who studied

snowflakes?
SEARCH TERMS/PHRASES USED TO GET ANSWER URL OF SITE WITH
THE ANSWER – the less words, the better! ANSWER
1. farmer who studied snowflakes http://tinyurl.com/4f7mr6f
2. Wilson
3.
4. Bentl
5.
ey

2. These are two things that make one snowflake different than
another:
SEARCH TERMS/PHRASES USED TO GET ANSWER URL OF SITE WITH
THE ANSWER – the less words, the better! ANSWER
1two things that make a snowflake different not the 1. each snowflake 1.
paper. is made up of http://tinyurl.com/4ny54o3
2. two answers that make a snowflake different from thousands of tiny 2.
molecules.
another http://tinyurl.com/4ny54o3
2. Temperature,
3.
air currents,
4.
and humidity
5.
all influence
shape and size.

3. Larger, complex snowflakes are all different. Why are no two

exactly like the
other?
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THE ANSWER – the less words, the better! ANSWER
1. two things that make one snowflake different than about 1015 of http://tinyurl.com/4sjgvux
another these molecules
2. will be
3. different from
4. the rest
5.

4. What type of snowflakes CAN look like one another?

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THE ANSWER – the less words, the better! ANSWER
1. two snowflakes that look alike Snow is actually http://tinyurl.com/4okuyyg
2. water vapor that
has frozen in the
3. clouds into
4. shimmering six-
5. sided ice crystals.
These ice crystals
appear white
instead of
colorless, as does
water, because all
the sides of the
little ice crystals
that make up a
snowflake reflect
light. The amazing
thing is that
although billions
of snowflakes fall
in a snowstorm, no
two have exactly
the same design!

5. The Guinness Book of World Records recorded the largest

snowflake. Where did
it fall and how wide and thick was it?
SEARCH TERMS/PHRASES USED TO GET ANSWER URL OF SITE WITH
THE ANSWER – the less words, the better! ANSWER
1. largest snowflake ever recorded largest snowflake http://tinyurl.com/4sjgvux
2. was 38cm wide
and 20cm thick. It
3. fell on Jan 28th
4. 1887 across Fort
5. Keogh in
Montana.
6. What is "snirt" and what does that have to do with snow?
SEARCH TERMS/PHRASES USED TO GET ANSWER URL OF SITE WITH
THE ANSWER – the less words, the better! ANSWER
1. define: snirt Snow that is dirty, http://tinyurl.com/4w5avkq
2. what does snirt have to do with snow often seen by the http://tinyurl.com/4mmr9rh
side of roads and
3. parking lots that
4. have been plowed
5. More in likely
the snow does
not turn black
on the side of
the road it is
prob

7. There are at least 35 types of snowflakes. Name five.

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THE ANSWER – the less words, the better! ANSWER
1. 1Artificial http://tinyurl.com/4pyznxp
2. Snow.
3. 2Avi Debris.
4. 3. Baby Heads
5. 4. Ball
Bearings
5. BBs

8. There is a lot of snowflake art. What would you buy at the

snowflake store?
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THE ANSWER – the less words, the better! ANSWER
1. I would buy the
2. glass snow
3. flake
4.
5.

9. Find a movie that shows a snowflake forming.

SEARCH TERMS/PHRASES USED TO GET THE ANSWER – the less words, the better.

1. snowflake forming
2.
3.
4.
5.
10. Copy and paste a snowflake PHOTO below. Don’t forget to paste
the URL.

http://tinyurl.com/45zvz3h

BONUS: Briefly explain how snowflakes are made (not the paper kind!)
There are thousands of molecules that make a snow flake and it
depends on the weather. But it has to be a certain degrees to form a
snow flake. That’s is why ever snow flake is different.