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, Dog pile, Yahoo, AltaVista, Met
crawler, Go COM

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

snowflakes?
SEARCH TERMS/PHRASES ANSWER URL OF SITE WITH ANSWER
USED TO GET THE ANSWER –
the less words, the better!
1. farmer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Bentley
2. farmer snowflakes Wilson
3. farmer studied snowflakes
4. Bentl
5.
ey

2. These are two things that make one snowflake different than
another:
SEARCH TERMS/PHRASES USED ANSWER URL OF SITE WITH ANSWER
TO GET THE ANSWER – the less
words, the better!
1.Different snowflake 1. http://www.videojug.com/expertanswer/fun-
2. temperatures science-weather/is-it-true-that-all-
3. 2. snowflakes-are-different
4.
5.

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

exactly like the
Other?
SEARCH ANSWER URL OF SITE WITH ANSWER
TERMS/PHRASES
USED TO GET
THE ANSWER –
 the less words, the
better!
1. Different 1.Prisms http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/class/class.htm
snowflakes 2.Spectored
2. Plate
3.
4.
5.

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

SEARCH TERMS/PHRASES USED TO GET ANSWER URL OF SITE WITH
THE ANSWER – the less words, the better! ANSWER
1. 1.
2. 2.
3.
4.
5.

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 ANSWER URL OF SITE WITH ANSWER
TO GET THE ANSWER – the less
words, the better!
1.Biggest Snowflake 15 inches http://weatherbreak2.creighton.edu/?p=786
2. wide
3. 8 inches thick
4.
5.

6. What is "snirt" and what does that have to do with snow?

SEARCH ANSWER URL OF SITE WITH ANSWER
TERMS/PHRASES
USED TO GET THE
ANSWER – the less
words, the better!
1.snirt snow- Snirt is an http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=285628
2. yucky snow
3. that sticks
4. in the
5. winter, and
melts in
may.
7. There are at least 35 types of snowflakes. Name five.
SEARCH ANSWER URL OF SITE WITH ANSWER
TERMS/PHRASES
USED TO GET THE
ANSWER – the less
words, the better!
1.Different snowflakes 1.Snow http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/class/class.htm
2. Crystal
3. 2.Prisms
4. 3.Stellar
5. plates
4.Sector
plates
5.Fernlike
stellar
dendrites

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

snowflake store?
SEARCH ANSWER
TERMS/PHRASES
USED TO GET
THE ANSWER –
the less words, the
better!
1. snowflake arts 1. http://www.google.com/#q=snowflake+art&hl=en&safe=vss&prmd=ivns&sou
2. Snowflake
3. shirt
4.
5.

9. Find a movie that shows a snowflake forming.

SEARCH TERMS/PHRASES USED TO GET ANSWER URL OF SITE WITH
THE ANSWER – the less words, the better! ANSWER
1. How a snowflake forms It forms a pure, …
2. then it separates
3. itself into 200
4. snow crystals.
5. Then it
repattern it’s
self.

10. Copy and paste a snowflake PHOTO below. Don’t forget to paste
the URL.

BONUS: Briefly explain how snowflakes are made (not the paper kind!)
• Out of the cloud
• COLD weather while rain is forming

• Cut out ICE by cloud